Social, Cultural, and Political Change
Social, Cultural, and Political Change
Social, Cultural, and Political Change
What do you
mean by the
word
change?
Change is the process of
becoming different
SOCIAL CHANGE (Definition)
CAUSE CAUSE
CAUSE CAUSE
• EFFECT • EFFECT
Causes of Social Change
1. Technology
2. Social Institutions
3. Population
4. Environment
SOURCES OF SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND
POLITICALCHANGE
1. INNOVATION
It refers to the use of new techniques to achieve
desired ends.
2. DIFFUSION
Refers to transmission of cultural
characteristics or traits from the
common society to all other society.
• Innovation –social creation and institutionalization of
new ideas.
• Diffusion – spread of innovation from one social
group to another. • Assimilation – process where some
of the “majority community’s” cultural aspects are
absorbed in such manner that the home cultural
manner gets mitigated or lost.
• Social Contradictions and Tensions –inter-ethnic
conflicts, struggles, protests, social issues.