Cultural, Social, and Political Change

• Social Change

  • refers to significant modification or alteration in the lifestyle of society, including culture.
• Social Change

  • may be brought about by cultural, religious, economic, scientific or technological forces.
• Social Change

  • any significant shift of modification in the lifestyle of the society that affects the major portion of the population that brings about pattern of behavior.
• Cultural Change

  • refers to change made in cultural elements, both material and non-material.
• Political Change

  • is when there is a significant disruption in a government that leads to new or modified leadership or policies.
• Cause of Social Change

  1. Technology
  2. Social institutions
  3. Population
  4. Environment
  5. Modernization
• According to Thomas Friedman, American political commentator and author, technology is the driving force behind globalization.
• People get connected all over the world through technology.
• Technologically advanced countries are on the rise.
• Technology contributes a lot to the modernization in the fields of medicine, agriculture, manufacturing and other industries.
• Social Institutions

  • are established sets of norms and subsystems in a society.
• Social Institutions

  • composed of different sectors and each sector carries out specific tasks and different responsibilities that contribute to the normal functioning of the society.
• A change in population in the composition of every level in the society leads to social change.
• A population change may affect the environment and the natural resources.
• Environment

  • issue on climate change.
• Modernization

  • also considered as a typical result of social change.
• Modernization

  • refers to the process of increased differentiation and specialization within a society, primarily around its industry and infrastructure.
• Sources of Cultural, Social, and Political Change

  1. Innovation
  2. Cultural Diffusion
  3. Acculturation
  4. Assimilation
  5. Social Contradictions and Tensions
• Innovation

  • the use of new techniques to achieve desires ends.
• Innovation

  • refers to changing or creating more effective processes and ideas.
• Innovation

  • process of translating a new idea into something that can create value.
• Cultural Diffusion

  • the spread of culture including aspects such as clothing and food, typically as a result of making contact with a new group for the first time.
• Acculturation

  • process where minority (small group of people) adopts the cultural aspects of the majority (large group of people) without losing its own traditions and customs.
• Assimilation

  • process whereby people of a culture learn to adapt to the new ways of the majority culture.
• Assimilation

  • loss of the minority's own culture as more value is given to the cultural aspects of the majority.
• Social Contradictions and Tensions

  1. Inter-ethnic conflict
  2. Revolution
  3. Terrorism
  4. Gender issue
• Inter-ethnic Conflict

  • an armed conflict between different ethnic groups.
• Revolution

  • involves a public seizure of the state with the main goal of overturning the existing political structures.
• Terrorism

  • occurs when non-state actors use violence against civilians to achieve their political goals.
• Gender issue

  • a source of social contradictions and tensions.
• Gender issue

  • this issue has been a subject on social discussions for quite some time up to the present.