Unit-2: Understanding Social Change
Overview
Change is an integral part of our lives and our existence has been through stages of growth and development from childhood, teenage, adulthood and old age. Likewise at various stages of our lives we attain primary, secondary and tertiary education etc. In similar vein, several changes occur in the society we live. History has witnessed the transformation of human society from preliterate to modern social organizations. Human societies have evolved from primitive hunting and gathering stages to horticultural, agrarian, industrial/modern and contemporary post-modern society. Cultural civilizations, empires, kingdoms and epochs has risen and fallen no doubt, but the nature of human socio-cultural organizations and social interactions equally transforms itself to fit the structural patterns of existing society in every epoch. It is generally opined that change is the only permanent phenomena, and as changes occur in the natural world so does changes occurs in human society. No human society is relatively static for too long as social change is a ubiquitous and inevitable phenomenon; likewise change may occur in all facets of society or selected parts of the social structure.
Suggested Reading:
Vago, S. (1999). Social Change. Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey. Chapter 01
- Unit-1: Introduction
- Unit-2: Understanding Social Change
- Unit-3: Dimensions and sources of change
- Unit-4: Theories of social change
- Unit-5: Evolutionary theories of change
- Unit-6: Conflict theories of social change
- Unit-7: Structural functional approaches to social change
- Unit-8: Patterns of social change
- Unit-9: Duration of social change
- Unit-10: Spheres of social change
- Unit-11: Reactions to social change
- Unit-12: Impacts of social change
- Unit-13: Costs of social change
- Unit-14: Strategies of social change
- Unit-15: Assessment of social change
- Unit-16: Conlusion
- Chapters 16
- Department Sociology and Criminology
- Teacher
Mr. Asad Umair
