SOCIAL SCIENCE 12

SUMMER 2016

Chapter VIII
SOCIAL CHANGE

Social Change- the alteration of patterns of social organization, structure,

institutions and inter or itra group behaviours overtime and affects all individuals in
one way or another.

Social Change and its Development

1.) Development of oral and written language and other means of
communication.
2.) Modification of technology.
3.) Shifts in economic principles.
4.) Historical revolutions of religious thoughts and political ideology.
5.) Variation of musical and in other art forms.
6.) Transition in scientific theory.
7.) Alteration in the forms and rules of social interactions.
Technology Change and Social Change
1.)The increasing differentiation in forms of tools and implement used by
men.
2.) The constant addition to and deletion from the range of inventions.
3.) The gradual increase in scientific knowledge.
4.) The resulting ability to utilize and exploit the natural environment for
mans needs.
Internal Sources of Social Change
Innovations- one great thing that can happen in any society is when people
acquire new ideas and change the way they do something.
FORMS OF INNOVATIONS:
1.) New Technology
2.) New Culture
3.) New Social Structures

Conflicts- much change is produced by conflicts among groups within the society.
Growth- population growth has become a major engine driving modern social
change; it presents new problem that demands new modes of social organizations.
New Ideas- in advanced industrial societies are experiencing a shift in values that
involves a new definition of progress.
Diffusion- direct or indirect contact between members of two different cultures
often leads to change in or both cultures.

THEORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE

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EVOLUTIONARY THEORY- states that people adapt to their environment for

them to survive whereas some societies are simple and others are more
complex.
FUNCTIONALIST
THEORYsocial
system
consisting
of
several
interdependent parts that functions in relation to the whole. The whole is
greater than the sum of its part.
CONFLICT THEORY- individuals and social groups have the tendency to
compete for scarce resources or for prestige may be a major source of social
change. This perspective holds the view that society is compose of various
competing interest groups.
CYCLICAL THEORY- Spengler and Torybee suggest that societies follow a
certain life course, vigorous, innovative and idealistic in youth.
SPONTANEOUS CHANGE- social change is traceable to one factor or events
that are significant in altering the course of societys destiny.
PLANNED SOCIAL CHANGE- the conscious, deliberate application of
knowledge to reshape social behaviour, institutional patterns and goals to fit
predetermined, desired state or conditions.

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

1.) Discovery
2.) Invention
3.) Diffusion
EFFECTS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOCIETY
1.) Distribution of Social Power
2.) Privacy of Individual Rights
3.) Social Relationship
4.) New Image of Humankind

Leader: Neptune G.
Mamucud

Members:

Lirah Mae F. Camonayan

John Paul G. Aggabao
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