This presentation defines social change as variations in social processes, patterns, interactions, or organization. Social change is characterized as being social, universal, continuous, inevitable, and having a non-uniform rate and multi-causal origins. The document lists several causes of social change including demographic factors, technology, population growth, economics, politics, the environment, and modernization. It discusses theories of social evolution from thinkers like Darwin, Spencer, Comte, and others and describes both unilineal and multilinear models of social evolution. The presentation was given by Nayeem Ahmed on the topic of social change and social evolution.

1. Presented By
Nayeem Ahmed
Presentation Topic :
Social Change & Social Evolution

2. Definition of Social Change
• “No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same
river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus (535 – 475 BC)
• “Social change is a term used to describe variations in or
modifications of any aspect of social processes, social patterns,
social interaction or social organization”. M.E. Jones (February 25,
1970)
• “Social change is a change in social relationship”. Robert Morrison
MacIver (April 17, 1882 – June 15, 1970)

3. Characteristics of Social Change
• Change is Social
• Universal
• Continuous
• Inevitable
• Temporal
• Degree or rate of change is not uniform
• Social Change may be planned or unplanned
• Social change is multi-causal
• Social change creates chain-reactions
• Prediction is uncertain
• Planned
• Unplanned
Types Social Change

4. Causes of Social Change
• Demographic
• Technology
• Population
• Cultural Factor
• Economic Factor
• Political Factor
• The Environment
• Modernization
• Religious
• Influence by the scholar
• Psychological Material

5. Causes of Social Change in Bangladesh
• Population growth
• Social cause
• Economic cause
• Geographic cause
• Political cause
• Religious impact
• Impact of Education & Culture
• Scientific, innovation and technological change
• Natural disasters
• Activities of NGO
• Influence by the scholar

6. Evolution of Social Change
Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)
Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903)
• Organic evolution
• Inorganic evolution
• Super organic evolution
Unilineal evolution
Auguste Comte, Edward Burnett Tylor,
Lewis Henry Morgan, and Herbert Spencer
Multilinear evolution
Leslie White, Julian Steward,
Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service
• Differentiation
• Integration

7. References
https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-change
https://www.sociologydiscussion.com/society/social-change-notes-on-the-definition-and-meaning-of-social-change/961
https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/essay-on-social-change-meaning-characteristics-and-other-details/8590
https://www.asanet.org/about/governance-and-leadership/council/presidents/robert-m-maciver
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/social-change/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism#:~:text=Darwinism%20is%20a%20theory%20of,compete%2C%20survive%2C%20and%20re
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPbjGvH4bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4YTvfMbbzA
https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/herbert-spencers-theory-of-social-evolution-explained-with-diagram/43739
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00077/full
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herbert-Spencer
Lecture sheet from Md. Mehedi Hassan Sir
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