What do you understand by social change? Discuss its factors.
Social change refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values and norms. By “significant” alteration, sociologists mean changes yielding profound social consequences. Examples of significant social changes having longâ€term effects include the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery, and the feminist movement.
Some of the most important factors of social change are as under:
1. Physical Environment:
Certain geographic changes sometimes produce great social change. Climate, storms, social erosion, earthquakes, floods, droughts etc., definitely affect social life and induce social change. Human life is closely bound up with the geographical conditions of the earth.
Human history is full of examples that flourishing civilisations 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 hardships—all indicate 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
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