The document discusses traditional American values such as personal achievement, individualism, work ethic, morality, efficiency, progress, equality, democracy, freedom, and education. It then asks questions about whether American values are changing and if a focus on self-fulfillment could shift values or breed narcissism in society. Finally, it outlines sources of social change like technology, population changes, diffusion of ideas from other cultures, the environment, wars, and factors that can lead to resistance to change like ethnocentrism, cultural lag, and vested interests.