Meaning, Definition, Different aspects, types, Factors bring about social change, Factors resisting social change, Theories, Role of Education in social change, Teacher as an agent of social change

1. Social Change
By
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor

2. • A change in the life-style of a group,
community or society
• Change in dress habits, food habits,
marriage rituals, customs, traditions,
folkways, mores, taboos, saving-
behaviour, production and distribution
techniques, etc., to a change in
attitudes, beliefs and values
Social Change

3. • Ogburn
• Social change means change in culture
in two ways – material culture and non-
material culture
• Jones
• “Social change is a term used to a
describe variations and movements of
social progress, social interactions or
social organization”
Definitions

4. • Economic Aspect
• Political Aspect
• Religious Aspect
• Moral Aspect
• Scientific and Technological
Aspect
Different Aspects of Social Change

5. Changes in
Social
Relations
Cultural changes
Civilizational
changes
Types of Social Change

6. • Impact of changes in physical environment, due
to natural calamities like earthquake, Tsunami
etc.,
• Impact of discoveries and inventions in Science
and technology
• Impact of war and other man-made explosions
• Impact of ideas and ideologies founded and
propagated by exceptional individuals
• Effect of cultural diffusion
• Planned human activities like industrialization,
urbanization, modernization, globalization etc.
Factors Bringing about
Social Change

7. Exogenous factors
Endogenous factors
According to Prof. W.J.H. Sprott

8. Physical and Biological
(Exogenous)
Technological
(Endogenous but
episodic in character)
Cultural (Endogenous
but planned and
patterned)

9. • Cultural Intertia
• Fear of New Things
• Vested Interests
• Degree of Isolation
Factors Resisting Social Change

10. • Closed-type Social setup
• Fear and Anxiety towards New things
and Practices
• Absence of new Discoveries in Science
and Technologies or their Diffusion
among the Population
• Isolation
Barriers to Social Change

11. • Shortage of Inventions
• Psychological Restraint
• Political Conditions
• Economic Conditions
• Social Conditions
• Cultural Conditions
• Fear
• Isolation
Restraints of Social Change
(Factors Opposing Social Change)

12. • Cultural Factor
• Geographic Factors
• Environmental Factors
• Economic Factors
• Technological Factors
• Factor of Population
• Psychological Factor
• Ideological Factors
• Factor of war
• Miscellaneous Factors
Factors Affecting Social Change

13. • Unilinear Theory
• Cyclical Theory
• Evolutionary Theory
• Theory of Deterioration
• Deterministic Theory (Purposeful Theory)
• Spiritual Theory
• Greatmen Theory of History
• Theory of Technological Progress
Theories of Social Change

14. •Two sub-systems
•Projective System
•Maintenance System
Theories of Social Change

15. Environmental Theory
Cultural Theory
Eclectic Theory

16. • Westernisation
• Industrialisaton
• Urbanization
• Casteism
• Secularization
• Social Mobility
- Horizontal Mobility
- Vertical Mobility
 Politicalization
 Indianization
 Modernisation
Main Factors (Causes) Affecting
Social Change in India

17. EDUCATION
AND
SOCIAL CHANGE

18. • Education Perpetuates Eternal Values
• Promotes Capacity to Welcome social
Change
• Evaluation of Social Change
• Aids Coming of New Social Changes
• Transmission of Culture
• Education about Social Change
Role of Education in Social Change

19. • Removal of Obstacles
• Increasing the Areas of knowledge
• Leadership Role in social Change
• Mother of New Changes
• Spreading Knowledge
• Stabilizing Democratic Values

20.  Levels of social change
- Surface level and Depth level
 Vital role of education
 Three-fold Function of Education
a. It can be retard the process of change
b. It can maintain the status quo
c. It can accelerate the process of social change
According to V.R.Taneja – three fold function of
education
i. Preservation of worthwhile heritage
ii. Transmission of worthwhile culture
iii. Dissemination of new knowledge,
Thus motivating dynamism and stimulating progress

21.  Education, a Creative Force
i. It can liquidate illiteracy
ii. It can remove social barriers
iii. It can overcome cultural lags
iv. It can act as means of social reconstruction
v. It can strengthen democratic forces
vi. It can create leaders

22.  Expectations from Education (With special
reference to India)
• Prepare youth to meet the challenges faced by
this society
• Educational and vocational guidance must
become an integral part of the new system of
education
• To meet the challenge of the emerging social
order
• Diffusion of scientific and technological
knowledge is essential to bridge the gap
between scholarship and manual work

23. ROLE OF TEACHERS
IN
SOCIAL CHANGE

24. • W.Gordon –
“It is the task of the teacher to educate –
to educate for change – to educate
through change – to educate for orderly
planned revolution. If necessary to
educate through more disruptive
revolutionary action”

25. • Development of natural abilities
• Perpetualizing Eternal Values
• Character – building
• Preparation for adult life
• Development of a personality
• Control and sublimation of basic instinct
• Development of a Sense of Community
• Encouragement to Social Welfare
• Creation of useful citizens
Importance and Functions of Education

26. • Protection and increase of culture and
civilization
• Increasing consciousness of other cultures
• Use of leisure
• National development
• Developing an international feeling
• Improving emotional unity

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