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Factors of Social Change

Social change can be caused by various factors including physical environment, demographic changes, cultural shifts, developments in ideas and ideologies, economic transformations, and political changes. The document outlines each of these factors in detail. It explains how changes in climate, population size and composition, cultural values and beliefs, modern science and secularization of thought, industrialization and technology, and new laws and political leadership can all impact and change social structures and institutions over time. Social change is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon influenced by developments in these key areas.

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Factors of Social Change

Social change can be caused by various factors including physical environment, demographic changes, cultural shifts, developments in ideas and ideologies, economic transformations, and political changes. The document outlines each of these factors in detail. It explains how changes in climate, population size and composition, cultural values and beliefs, modern science and secularization of thought, industrialization and technology, and new laws and political leadership can all impact and change social structures and institutions over time. Social change is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon influenced by developments in these key areas.

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FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Change means differentiation in anything observation over


something. If we feel that there’s come alteration we call it
changes. Change is universal phenomena i.e. it is a law of native.
There is always change in nature. Society is part of nature and
society also changes and static society is unthinkable. Society is on
the wheel of change, which may occur due to various factor.

DEFINITION OF SOCIAL CHANGE


According to Ginsberg social change means “By social change I can
understand a change in the social structure “.
According to Kingsley Doris social change means “By social change
it mean only alternation as occur in social organization i.e. the
structure and function of society.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE


Social change is universal or it is an essential law .
Change is unpredictable in general revol is a process of social
change. What speed and in what form the change take place is not
easily predictable.
Social change is change in community.
Social change generally changes in direction.
MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
1. PHYSICSL ENVIRONMENT

Certain geographical changes sometimes produce grate social change.


Climate, storms, social erosion, earthquakes, floods, droughts etc.,
definitely affect social life and induce social change. Human life is
closely bound with the geographical condition of the earth. Human
history is full of example that flourishing civilization fell prey to natural
calamities. The distribution of population over various regions, the
variations in the population densities, the agricultural production, flora
and fauna, the joys and hardship- all indicates a change when a change
in the physical environment occurs.

2. DEMOGRAPHIC [biological] FACTOR

Broadly speaking , demography is concerned with the size and


structure of human population. The social structure of the society is
closely related with the change in the size, composition and
distribution of population. The size of the population ids based mainly
upon three factors- birth rate ,death rate and migration .

3.CULTURAL FACTOR
It is an established fact that there is an intimate connection
between our beliefs and social institutions, our values and social
relationships. Values, beliefs, ideas, institutions are the basic
elements of a culture. Certainly, all cultural changes involve social
change.
Social and the cultural aspect are closely interwoven. Thus, any
change in the culture brings a corresponding change in the whole
social order. Social institution cannot live on life shells within
which life is extinct.
4.IDEALATION FACTOR

Among the culture factor affecting social change in modern times,


the development of science and secularization of thought have
contributed a lot to the development of the critical and innovation
character of the modern outlook. We no longer follow many
customs or habits merely because they have the age-old authority
of tradition.
On the contrary, our ways of life have increasingly become on the
basis of rationality.
Some writer have interpreted social change at ideational level and
asserted that all social change is ideational. They argued that ideas
could influence the course of social change. For them, ideational
changes are important contributory factors to many or most types
of social changes. Ideas and ideologies together are powerful
motivating forces in social change.

5. ECONOMIC FACTOR

Of economic influences, the most far-reaching is the impact of


industrialization. It has revolutionized the whole way of life,
institutions, organizations and community life. In traditional
production systems, levels of production system, level of
production were fairly static since they were geared to
habitual, customary needs. Modern industrial capitalism
promotes the constant revision of the technology of
production, a process into which science is increasingly
drawn.
The impact of industrialization we can easily see on Indian
family system and cast system.
6. POLITICAL FACTOR

State is the most powerful organization which regulates the


social relationships. It has the power to legislate new laws ,
repeal old ones to bring social change in the society. Laws
regarding child marriage, widow remarriage, divorce, inheritance
and succession, untouchability are some of the example which
have brought many changes in social structure of Indian society.
The type of political leadership and individuals in power also
influence the rate and direction of social change . In many
societies the political leadership controls the economy also.
Scientific technological and non-technological change are also
dependent on political development which indirectly affects
social change .

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