{"id":6196,"date":"2020-02-06T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T12:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2020-02-06T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T12:28:47","slug":"social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Change<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6198\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social.jpg 638w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social change is a change in the social structures and functions of those Structures. The term social change is also used to indicate the changes that take place in human interactions and interrelations. For example Change in Structure and Functions of family (Joint to Nuclear Structure of Family and Change in functions of family).<\/p>\n<p>For<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Maciver and Page, <\/strong><\/span>Society is a web of social relationships and hence social change means change in the system of social relationships. These are understood in terms of social processes and social interactions and social organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Auguste Comte<\/span> t<\/strong>he father of Sociology has posed two problems- the question of social statics and the question of social dynamics, what is and how it changes. The sociologists not only outline the structure of the society but also seek to know its causes also.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Morris Ginsberg <\/span><\/strong>social change is a change in the social structure.<\/p>\n<p>Change is the law of nature. What is today shall be different from what it would be tomorrow.\u00a0 The social structure is subject to incessant change.. Individuals may strive for stability, societies may create the illusion of permanence, the quest for certainty may continue unabated, yet the fact remains that society is an everchanging phenomenon, growing, decaying, renewing and accommodating itself to changing conditions and suffering vast modifications in the course of time.<\/p>\n<p>Our understanding of it will not be complete unless we take into consideration this changeable nature of society, study how differences emerge and discover the direction of change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-Change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6197\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-Change.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-Change.jpg 638w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-Change-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Social-Change-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Forms of Social Change<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Generally social change occurs in two forms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Change in the system<\/span>:-<\/strong> It means all the small changes occurring in the system come under this form of social change. Karl Marx has described it in the form of quantitative changes. Such changes keep going on in all the societies like premature communism, ancient society, similarly plenty of changes coming up in modern societies in all areas are the ways of change in the system. Given so much importance to children and women in today\u2019s family, is indicator of change in relations. Parsons has also talked about such kind of change.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Change of the system<\/span>:- <\/strong>Though, this form of change, brings change in the whole system, for eg the qualitative change explained by Karl Marx described, this kind of change, because under qualitative change, the whole system is replaced by another system. Similarly, if it happens that in India, caste system in completely abolished and absolute class system is established then it would be said to be change of the system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/social-pathology-ppt0-7-638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6199\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/social-pathology-ppt0-7-638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/social-pathology-ppt0-7-638.jpg 638w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/social-pathology-ppt0-7-638-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/social-pathology-ppt0-7-638-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Direction of Social Change: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though there is not any fixed direction of change and so there is nothing absolute to describe it. But maclver and Page have given, in general, the following directions of change<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Forward direction of change: <\/strong><\/span>Shows a definite positive change. This is usually seen in the field of science and technology, which in turn, change the existence of life and knowledge.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Downward\/Backward direction of change<\/span>:<\/strong>&#8211; Some changes occur, upwards initially but later on a process of degeneration starts, economic change in the best example of it. Metropolitan cities also decay after a big change. In International market also this kind of change in seen.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Wave Like change:<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; Another direction of change happens as a wave ambulance like motion and example of such kind of changes are seen in the field of fashion, styles of living, attires etc. Which after sometime repeat itself. It does not have any fixed direction of high level of change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Factors of Social Change<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Internal Factors<\/span>:-<\/strong> Change in population and geographical conditions, change in production process migration, Individual interests, communal conflicts, change in physical consumerism like in science and technology industrialization, urbanization, consumerism lifestyle etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">External Factors:<\/span>&#8211; <\/strong>Cultural contact is the main external factor, which could be direct or indirect and which beings change in the form of acculturation, assimilation and diffusion for eg. India realized change under the direct influence of Islam and Western culture and especially westernization has put a great impact on our societies, in all spheres of life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Nature of Social Change:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Social change is a universal phenomenon. Social change occurs in all societies.\u00a0 No society remains completely static.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 This is true of all societies, primitive as well as civilized.\u00a0 Society exists in a universe of dynamic influences.\u00a0 The population changes, technologies expand, material equipment changes, ideologies and values take on new components and institutional structures and functions undergo reshaping.\u00a0 The speed and extent of change may differ from society to society.\u00a0 Some change rapidly, others change slowly.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Social change is community change. Social change does not refer to the change in the life of an individual or the life patterns of several individuals.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 It is a change which occurs in the life of the entire community.\u00a0 In other words, only that change can be called social change whose influence can be felt in a community form.\u00a0 Social change is social and not individual.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Speed of social change is not uniform. While social change occurs in all societies, its speed is not uniform in every society.<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0In most societies it occurs so slowly that it is often not noticed by those who live in them. Even in modern societies there seems to be little or no change in many areas.\u00a0 Social change in urban areas is faster than in rural areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Nature and speed of social change is affected by and related to time factor. The speed of social change is not uniform in each age or period in the same society.<\/span>\u00a0 In modern times the speed of social change is faster today than before 1947.\u00a0 Thus, the speed of social change differs from age to age.\u00a0 The reason is that the factors which cause social change do not remain uniform with the change in times.\u00a0 Before 1947 there was less industrialization in India, after 1947 India has become more industrialized.<\/strong>\u00a0 Therefore, the speed of social change after 1947 is faster than before 1947.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Social change occurs as an essential law. Change is the law of nature.\u00a0 Social change also is natural.<\/span>\u00a0 It may occur either in the natural course or as a result of planned efforts.<\/strong>\u00a0 By nature we desire change.\u00a0 Our needs keep on changing.\u00a0 To satisfy our desire for change and our changing needs social change becomes a necessity.\u00a0 The truth is that we are anxiously waiting for a change.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>According to Green<\/strong> <\/span>\u201cThe enthusiastic response of change has become almost a way of life.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Definite prediction of social change is not possible. It is difficult to make any prediction about the exact forms of social change.<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0There is no inherent law of social change according to which it would assume definite forms.\u00a0 We may say that on account of the social reform movement untouchability will be abolished from the Indian society; that the basis and ideals of marriage laws passed by the government; that industrialization will increase the speed of urbanization but we cannot predict the exact forms which social relationships will assume in future.\u00a0 Likewise it cannot be predicted as to what shall be our attitudes, ideas, norms and values in future.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Social change shows chain-reaction sequence. A society\u2019s pattern of living is a dynamic system of inter-related parts. <\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Therefore, change in one of these parts usually reacts on others and those on additional ones until they bring a change in the whole mode of life of many people.\u00a0 For example, industrialism has destroyed the domestic system of production.\u00a0 The destruction of domestic system of production brought women from the home to the factory and the office.\u00a0 The employment of women meant their independence from the bondage of man.\u00a0 It brought a change in their attitudes and idea.\u00a0 It meant a new social life for women.\u00a0 It consequently affected every part of the family life.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Social change results from the interaction of a number of factors<\/span>. Generally, it is thought that a particular factor like changes in technology, economic development or climatic conditions causes social change.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is called monistic theory which seeks to interpret social change in terms of one single factor.\u00a0 But the monistic theory does not provide an adequate explanation of the complex phenomenon of social change.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, social change is the consequence of a number of factors.\u00a0 A special factor may trigger a change but it is always associated with other factors that make the triggering possible.\u00a0 The reason is that social phenomena re mutually interdependent.\u00a0 None stand out as isolated forces that bring about change of themselves. \u00a0Rather each is an element in a system.\u00a0 Modification of one part influences the other parts and this influence the rest, until the whole is involved.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Social change are chiefly those of modification or of replacement. Social changes may be broadly categorized as modifications or replacements. <\/strong><\/span>It may be modification of physical goods or social relationships.\u00a0 For example, the form of our breakfast food has changed.\u00a0 Though we eat the same basic materials which we ate earlier, wheat, eggs, corn, but their form is changed.\u00a0 Ready-to-eat-cornflakes, breads, omlettes are substituted for the form in which these same materials were consumed in yester years.\u00a0 There may also be modifications of social relationships.\u00a0 The old authoritarian family has become the small equalitarian family, the one room school has become a centralized school.\u00a0 Our ideas about women\u2019s rights, religion, government and co-education stand modified today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Social Change Social change is a change in the social structures and functions of those Structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,115],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sociology-optional","category-sociology-optional-paper-i","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}