3. What is Social
Change?
• Social Change:
• All societies are involved in a process of social change,
however this change may be so subtle and slow that society is
hardly aware of it
• The opposite of social change is social continuity which means
that there are structures within society which are built to resist
change. Example - the Catholic Church
4. What is Social Change?
• The term social change is used to indicate the
changes that take place in human interactions
and interrelations. Society is a web of social
relationships and hence social change means
change in the system of social relationships.
5. Examples of Social
Change
• Question : How has public opinion shifted
regarding social issues such as:
-Smoking
-Domestic Violence
-Divorce
6. Causes of Social Change
Invention
• Production of new objects, ideas, and
social patterns
Discovery
• Taking note of certain elements of a
culture
Diffusion
• The spread of products, people, and
information from one culture to another
7. Natural Forces of
Social Change
GEOGRAPHY
• This is when the natural
lay of the land has affected
the way societies have developed Examples?
• Natural disasters can also drastically change a society (floods,
earthquakes, volcanoes)
ENVIRONMENT
• Pollution, garbage, ozone, car emissions, recycling
• national, provincial and local programs that address
environmental problems
• Effects?
8. Technology
• Technology has strongly
affected the way societies
are designed and how they
keep changing
• People receive their
information more quickly
now, can communicate in
different ways
• Greatest invention of the
millennium? Guesses?
• Impact…
9. Population changes:
•
A population change is itself a social change .
• group relations multiply, institutional
structures grow more elaborate and many
other changes follow
• Example: Karachi
• Schools ,collages ,hospitals .universities,
railway stations ,air port
11. Urbanization:
• Moving population from ruler areas to urban
(Cities) areas.
• Adopt culture
• Tube veil ,tractors, fertilizer
• Vaccine,
• Lady worker
12. Education:
• Educational uplift is also main cause of social
change
• Examples: china, Japan, Malaysia
• School
• Collage
• Universities
• Mental education
14. Political factors
• Society is based on rules and regulations ,customs which are
built or prepared by govt
• politics affects the society.
• Govt is made of different kinds of people who are educated
or uneducated but the ultimate aim o f them as upliftment of
society.
• So these political leaders are products of society.
• . As any political party or person change something in state or
contributes in changing in something in society which
definitely brings a social change.
• Examples: The impact of World War-2, Rule of Nazi dictator
Hitler in Germany , partitions of India in 1947 have brought
about several social changes in the respective societies.
16. Cultural Factor
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.
17. Changing in Culture of Pakistan
Pakistan has undergoing in massive cultural
change rapidly. Pakistani people are adopting
the western culture increasingly. The pakistani
media is playing a vital role in this
regard. People are adopting the European
culture by watching their movie and dramas.
18. Continue…
Pakistani nation stands on an undesirable
path. It has become extremely evident from
today's lifestyle of people, the extent to which
Indian culture is adopted. Starting from
Bollywood films to adopting their TV shows.
Today, the topmost watched channels in
Pakistan are Indians which influence Indian
lifestyle.
19. External Events as Forces
of Social Change
• External events are events that have occurred on a
large scale affecting an entire nation or several
nations
• These events have a large and immediate impact on
social change
Examples
• American Civil War – abolished slavery
• WWII – forced women into the workforce and they never
returned home
• September 11/2001 – a change of thought regarding national
threat and security
20. Poverty and
Affluence
• Karl Marx was first to point
sociology to study inequality
in society
• Income inequalities:
gap between earnings of the rich and poor
• Is social inequality an inherent part of human social structures?
• Does society have a responsibility in trying to deal with the
effects of income inequality?
• Effects? - education, crime, housing
• Examples?
22. Media and Social Change
• Media plays a vital role for social society.
• Shrunk the size of the world.
• Played vital role in controlling population by
advertising various effects of high population.
• One of the best media which bring social
change is Internet.
23. Values and Social Change: Pluralism
• Singularity- belief that everyone in society should act and
think the same way
• Pluralism- widespread acceptance of differences in culture,
religion, values and lifestyle
• Inclusiveness- all law abiding people, regardless of their
particular background, should be able to play a constructive
role in the life of the nation
• Examples: struggle for inclusiveness with women obtaining
equal roles and status to traditionally ‘male’ roles
Hinweis der Redaktion
Meaning= that all people over 40 find themselves living in a society that is different from the one in which they grew up. The society that they knew as children (beliefs, values and symbols) no longer exists. She concluded that all humans have to adapt to the social changes that take place after childhood, just as immigrants do when they move to a new country.
On a more personal level social change is like the change you make in the pattern of your life. It can be subtle – like eating lunch earlier in the day, to more planed such as getting a job or it can be drastic like going off to university. Each of these things will affect your life but too varying degrees.Social Continuity: A personal example of this is grandmother who will not use a dishwasher no matter what. She has had a dishwasher for 45 years and it still looks brand new because she refuses to make the change to a dishwasher.
- Different styles of land in Canada require a form of government that places much responsibility on the provincial level-China’s geographical layout forced the nation to develop a large scale irrigation system which required a strong centralized government
North American coasts have small inlets which led to the development of small, separate colonies, able to be independent of each other
Johanne Gutenberg He created the printing press in 1450
This invention took the process of reading out of wealthy circles and monasteries and into the hands of the ordinary people
Books became more affordable and became the method of choice when circulating new ideas
Martin Luther used the printing press to his advantage in the 1500s when he challenged church doctrine starting off what has come to be known as the Reformation While the printing press brought us many good things it also changed the way we tell stories
Memorization and oral recitation begin to lose favour after the printing press
The church starts to lose some of its control over the congregation as bibles become more accessible to the public
Luther uses the printed word to start the Reformation
Social Change Theory looks at the factors contributing to change within the structure of society
Change has to start with society and a belief that change is good and warranted
Does change begin with the individual or the technology?
A new concept suggests that social change can be initiated by another force: technology.
This is called technological determinism: the invention of a particular tool (ie. Computer) takes on a life of its own after it has been introduced, with society simply reacting to the new technology.
-Welfare-Canada’s Employment Equity Act of 1986- goal to ensure a more equitable distribution of income by race, gender, and physical or mental ability
