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  2. Semantic change - Wikipedia

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    Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution of word usage—usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage.

  3. Social change - Wikipedia

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    Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by evolutionary means.It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure, for instance the transition from feudalism to capitalism, or hypothetical future transition to some form of post-capitalism.

  4. Language change - Wikipedia

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    Can and Patton (2010), based on their observations of the change of a specific word use (more specifically in newer works the preference of ama over fakat, both borrowed from Arabic and meaning "but", and their inverse usage correlation is statistically significant), also speculate that the word length increase can influence the common word ...

  5. Social transformation - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, social transformation is a somewhat ambiguous term that has two broad definitions. One definition of social transformation is the process by which an individual alters the socially ascribed social status of their parents into a socially achieved status for themselves ( status transformation ).

  6. Digital transformation - Wikipedia

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    Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology [1] [2] [3] by an organization in order to create new or modify existing products, services and operations by the means of translating business processes into a digital format.

  7. Societal transformation - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, societal transformation refers to “a deep and sustained, nonlinear systemic change” [1] in a society. Transformational changes can occur within a particular system, such as a city, a transport or energy system. Societal transformations can also refer to changes of an entire culture or civilization.

  8. Transformative use - Wikipedia

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    Arriba Soft Corporation [5] Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., [6] and Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc., [7] the courts find a derivative-work use (such as that of thumbnails in an image search engine, for indexing purposes) or a copy of text (to facilitate key-word indexing) transformative because it provides an added benefit to the ...

  9. Culture change - Wikipedia

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    Culture change is a term used in public policy making and in workplaces that emphasizes the influence of cultural capital on individual and community behavior. It has been sometimes called repositioning of culture, [1] which means the reconstruction of the cultural concept of a society. [1]