What is social change?

Social change is a universal phenomenon. It occurs in all societies.

The population changes, technologies expand, material equipment changes, ideologies and values take on new components and institutional structures and functions undergo reshaping changes in culture are related to changes in society.

Speed of social change is not uniform. Also it is not uniform in each age or period in the same society. 

It widely varies in scope and one can talk of small scale and large scale changes. Social changes may be broadly characterised as modifications or replacements.

It may be a modification of physical goods or social relationships e.g. old authoritarian family.

The change also takes the form of replacement. New material of non-material form supplants the old one. Definite prediction of social change cannot be made and may occur due to a variety of factors.

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