HOW SOCIAL CHANGES CAN OCCUR IN OUR SOCIETY. HOW A SOCIETY CAN CHANGE THROUGH A PROCESS FROM THEIR PRIMITIVE STAGE TO MATURE STAGE. CHANGES ALWYAS NOT REFERS TO GOOD THINGS LIKE DEVELOPMENT, SOMETIMES IT HAD SOME BAD EFFECT ALSO.

1. social change
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SUVOJIT GHOSH

2. concept of social change
Social change: social change may be define as any change that
occurs, basically the established forms of social relationship,
transforming in some measure in the social structure is social
change.
 social change refers to variations or modification in the pattern
of social organization of sub-groups within a society itself. This
may be manifested in the rise and fall of group, communities etc.
It reflects in all the aspect of social life i.e. family,
neighborhoods , play group, work group, religious, political,
economic etc.

3.  3 main features of change:
1. object
2. Time
3. variation
Kingley Davis(1949) “ By social change is meant only such
alterations that occur in social organization , i.e. structure and
function of society”.
B. kuku swami “social change is some change in social Behavior &
social structure”

4. Process of social change
process of social change may be following manner:
change in the experience of individual
change in the attitude of individual
change in the social interaction
change in the social relations among the people
change in the social structure
social change

5. Characteristics Social Change
• Temporal
• Degree or rate
of change is not
uniform.
• Social change
is a multi-
causal .
• No Forecasting
• social change
may be
planned or
unplanned.
• Create chain
reaction.
• It is a
adaption
process.

6. Types of social change
Types
Civilization
change
Social
relation
Cultural
change

7. Forms of social change

8. Source of social change
 social change originate from either within a society or
from out side of a society
 Internal source: Internal sources are those factors that
originated within a specific society that singly or in
combination with other factors produce alternation in the
social institutions or social structure
 External source: are those sources which originated out side
of the society .

9. Factors of social change

10. Demographic Factor
• The term “Demography” has been derived from two Greek words
‘Demos’ and ‘Graphs’ meaning there by “people” and to “draw” of
or “write” respectively which means scientific study of human
population. Means
• Age structure
• gender
• Income Distribution
• Family size
• Occupation
• Education
• social class
• population increase & Decrease

11. Biological factor
Biological factor are those factor which concern with the
genetic factor. Social change may be related to the
quantitative aspect of population the is the powerful and
great man in the society . For instant , Jesus christ ,
Buddha , Karl Marx , Mahatma Gandhi etc. have
played important role in social change .

12. Cultural factors
 Culture
Culture is a system that constantly loses and gains components. There are three
main Sources of cultural change.
 The first source is innovation.
Inventions produce new products, ideas, and social patterns. .
 The second source is discovery.
Discovery is finding something that has never been found before, or finding
something
new in something that already exists.
 The third source is diffusion.
Diffusion is the spreading of ideas and objects to other societies..
 The ‘mass media’ is a vital factor in the speed of social change. It permits
rapid diffusion of ideas, thought, culture, etc.

13. Technological
Factor  i) Importance of capital
instead of labour as against
the norm in simple societies;
 ii) Rise of factories as units of
productions instead of family;
 iii) Use of machines in place
of human and animal labour;
 iv) Development of world
market instead of local
market; and
 v) Improved means of
transport and communication
and a currency based
economy.
agriculture
technology
Green
revolution

14. Economic Factor
 Industrial Revolution:
 The Industrial Revolution which started in
Europe in the late 17th century
 a) Production moved out of households to
factories.
 b) Capital acquired a greater role in the
production process.
 c) The occupational structure of the
workforce changed from largely agrarian to
an increasingly larger industrial workforce.
 d) People from all strata of society took to
industrial activity.
 e) Women moved out of homes in large
numbers and entered the workforce.
 f) Barriers of religion, belief etc. crumbled as
the demand for labour increased.
 g) Urbanisation took place at an accelerated
pace.
 h) It triggered changes in other spheres like
mass transport and communication too, thus
radically altering the existing social
structure.
 As population rise, consequently the
demand for food grew, the situation
warranted a close look at increasing
agricultural productivity and the answer
that finally helped India to become self
sufficient in food has been termed the
“Green Revolution” which is a name given
to the dramatic changes brought about in
the field of agriculture since the late 1960s.
 This had a great impact on the family
relationships as it triggered large-scale
seasonal migration from states like Orissa,
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to Punjab and
Haryana, the cradle of the Green
Revolution. Additionally, another
significant outcome was a widening of
inequality across states in general and
among the “landed and the “landless” in
particular.

15. Educational Factor
 Education is most important factor for creating social
change . Education that transforms the child from a young
animal into a rational human. Education improves the
quality and skill of the individuals , thus modification of
new behavior bring new values and ideas

16. Environmental Factor
 Change can be through the impact of environmental factors such as
drought and
 famine. The degree of natural disasters between different countries
and regions also
 lead the different social changes between the countries. The shift
from collecting,
 hunting and fishing to agriculture may have happened because, in
some areas, the
 human population grew too large to be sustained by existing
resources

17. Factor resisting social change
1. Fear of new thing
2. Family Disorganization
3. social tension
4. Degree of isolation
5. Fear of Unemployment
6. Illiteracy
7. Unawareness

18. Role of Education in social change
 The promoting society for accepting social change.
 Provide conductive Environment to social change.
 Evaluation of social change.
 Transmission of culture.
 Promoting unity & Total integration at time of social change.
 Maintaining human and social relation.
 Removing of obstacles.
 Increasing the area of knowledge & Developing the critical thinking.

19. Education and social change
1. Education is an Instrument of social
change.
2. Education follow social change.

20. Education as an Instrument
 Development of knowledge in different fields.
 stabilization of eternal value.
 Helpful in accepting the change.
 Eradicate the hindrances.
 Leading social change.
 Helpful in social mobility.
 Helpful in social reforms.
 Helpful in promotion of unity and cohesion.

21. Education Follows social change
 Education change due to social forces
 Education change due to social need
 Education change due to cultural
change

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