SOCIAL CHANGE
AND ITS FACTORS
PRESENTING BY
SAI VAMSI KRISHNA PUTTA

To understand and explore the
definition of social change.
To explain the factors of social
change
- Vamsi Putta
Objective

OUTLINE OF MY PRESENTATION
1. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY?
2. DEFINATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE
3. FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Study of the
1. Development
2. Structure
3. Functioning of Human society
4. Social problems

What is society?
Latin word - 'socious’ [association or companionship]
According to sociologists, a society is a group of people with
common territory, interaction, and culture.
Prof
Wright
Linton A.W. Green
Maclver
Adam
Smith

Definition of Social change
• A process.
• Change in social
organization, structure
functions of society.
• Human change, which takes
place in the life patterns of
the people. Basically it
refers to the change in
social relationship.
Kingsley
Davis
Maclver
Lundberg
Alvin
Toffler
H.T.
Mazumdar
Morris
Ginsberg
Gillin M.E. Jones

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.

Characteristics of social change
(1) Change is Social
(2) Universal
(3) Continuous
(4) Inevitable
(5) Temporal

(6) Degree or rate of change is not uniform
(7) Social Change may be planned or unplanned
(8) Social change is multi-causal
(9) Social change creates chain-reactions
(10) Prediction is uncertain

Factors
affecting the
social change
Agencies

Demographic Factors Biological Factors

Natural factors
1. Natural Factors: A storm, earthquake, flood, drought,
disease and similar natural events even today can disrupt
the social system.
2. Natural calamities like floods, earthquakes, draughts,
famines and other natural disasters always force changes in
the social conditions and life of the affected people.

Cultural factors
1. The cultural factors also play a role in bringing about social
change. Our social life depends upon our beliefs, ideas,
values, customs, conventions, institutions and the like. When
there is a change in these, it influences the social life. For
example, let us consider the system of marriage.
2. The relations between the parents and children have
undergone a big change. The new love and need for working
couples has acted as a source of big change in family
relations and culture. Thus, socio-economic and cultural
factors always act as big and formidable factors of social
change.

Science and Technology factors:
Two important sources
Invention of automobile.
A single invention in technology can
produce a large scale change in society.
Discovery of modern medicines.
It is the result of discoveries in biology
and partly the result of invention.
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Biological Factors:
1. Biological factors also affect social change. Biological factors
are those factors which determine the structure, selection
and hereditary qualities of generations.
2. The human element is ever changing. Each new generation
is different from previous generation.
3. It is different in form, ideas and in many other ways from
the one gone before.

Demographic Factors
1. The population increase or decrease always brings social
problems. When the birth-rate in a society exceeds death-
rate, population begins to rise.
2. A constantly rising population gives birth to poverty,
unemployment, disease and several other related problems.
3. The social conditions deteriorate the size of families shrink
and it affects the social relations.

Socio-economic Factors
1. Marx said that the entire social structure of a country is
determined by economic factors i.e the means of production
and distribution. {social organization}
2. The birth of the institutions of marriage and family took
place under the influence of the means of production of
material means of livelihood. With the birth of family
wealth and possessions became important

Geographical Factors
1. The cultural life of the people depends upon the physical
environment. Progress also depends upon the availability of
natural resources, their exploitation.
2. The climate always affects the socio-economic activities of
the people. For instance, there is little economic activity at
both poles (North and South) due to intense and long spells
of cold the speed of social change remains negligible. On the
other hand, there is always an intense activity in temperate
regions (neither too cold nor too warm), and consequently
the speed of social changes is quite fast.

NOW THINK FOR AN
EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL
CHANGE!!!!!!

ABOLITION OF
CHILD
MARRIAGE

GREAT
CHANGE IN
CASTE
SYSTEM

Thank you
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