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social change

What is Social Change?

“It is a change in social organization, that is the

structure and functions of society”

“It is a change in social organization, that is the

structure and functions of society”

According to M.J. Jons, Social change is a term use to describe variation in or modification of any aspect of

social process, social interaction and organization.

By Social change is mean to only such volteration as occurs in social organization. That is structure and function of society.- Kingsley Davis.

H.T. Mazumdar, “Social change may be defined as a new fashion or mode, either modifying or replacing the old, in the life of people or in the operation of society.”

From the above definitions it may be concluded that social change is:

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• Social change means human change, which takes place in the life patterns of the people. Basically it refers to the change in social relationship.

• It refers to all historical variations in human societies. It means changes in all fundamental relations of man to man. Which includes changes in political institutions, class structure, economic systems, mores and modes of living.

•A process.

Characteristics of social change:

Short vs long run change

Social change is

continuous

Social change is temporal

Social change is

environmental

Social

change is human change

Social change is

way to planed or

unplanned

Social change results from

interaction of a number of

factors

2. Social change is temporal: Change happens through time social change is temporary. The sense is denotes the time sequence in fact society exists only as a time sequence.

3 . Social change is environmental: It must take place within a geographic or physical and cultural context. Both these context have impact on human behavior and in turn man change them. Social changes never take place in vacuum.

1.Social change is continuous: Society is undergoing endless changes. These change are no be stopped. Society can’t be preserved in a museum to save it from the ravages of time. From the down of history down to this day society has been in continuous flux.

4.Social change is human change: This sociological significant of the change comes the fact in involves the human aspect the composition of society is not constant but the fact that people effect change and are themselves affected by it makes change extremely important.

6.Short vs long run change: Some social changes may bring about immediate results while some others may take years and decades to produce results. This distinction is significant because a change which appears to be very vital to day may be nothing more than a temporary oscillation having nothing to do with the essential trends of life.

7.Social change results from interaction of a number of factors: A single factor may bigger a particular change, but it is always associated with other factors the physical, biological, technological, cultural and other factors may, together bring about social change. This is due to the mutual interdependence of social phenomenon.

5.Social change is way to planed or unplanned: The direction and tempo of social change are often conditioned by human engineering plans, programs and projects may be launched by man in order to determined and controlled the rate and direction of social change.

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