Social change meaning characteristics.pptx

Social change meaning characteristics useful for sociology and msw students
Msw first semester mg University

1. WELCOME ALL

2. SOCIAL CHANGE: MEANING,CHARACTERISTICS Presented by; ASWATHI J LENIN MSW 1 st Year Jai Bharath college,Perubavoour

3. The word ‘changes’ denotes a difference in anything observed over some period of time. Social change, therefore, would mean observable differences in any social phenomena over any period of time. A Look into the history of society reveals that all social institutions such as family ,religion, marriage, political, economic, social values and social attitudes have undergone a drastic change over a period of time. Human society is in an ever- changing process, growing, decaying, renewing, and adjusting itself to new found ideas, inventions and ways of living. INTRODUCTION

4. Social change may be defined as the alteration or transformation at large scale level in the social structure, social institutions, social organisation and patterns of social behaviour in a society Change is the law of nature .What is today shall be different from what it would be tomorrow. Social change is a change in society and society is a web of social relationships. Social relationship are social processes, social patterns, social interactions. These include the mutual activities and relations of the various parts of society. Can be explained using growth, progress, evolution, revolution, adaption and accommodation MEANING OF SOCIAL CHANGE

5. K Davis : Social change means only such alternation, that occurs in the society, that is the structure and functions of the society Jones: Social change is a term used to describe variation in or modification of any aspect of social process, social pattern, social interaction or social organisation According to Maclver and page : Social change is a change in social relationship. It is a process responsive to many types, to changes in man-made conditions of living, to changes in attitudes and beliefs of men and to changes that go beyond human control to the biological and physical nature of things DEFINITION DEFINITIONS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

6. Social change is universal phenomenon Social change is community change Speed of social change is not uniform Nature and speed of social change is affected by and related to time factor Social change occurs as an essential law Define prediction of social change is not possible Social change is continuous Social change is temporal CHARACTERISTICS

7. Social change is environmental Social change is human change Social change may be planned or unplanned Social change may create chain reaction.

8. No human society is static and at the same time it is difficult to predict the forms and directions of social change. The reason is that the factors which cause social change do not remain uniform always. The population changes , expansion of science and technology, ideologies and social values take on new forms and as a result of that social structure, social system and social institutions change their functioning CONCLUSION