Sociology for nurses, 2nd Edition

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Social Change

Learning Objectives

• Introduction
• Meaning and nature of social change
• Difference between social change and cultural change
• Factors involved in social change
• Factors of social change in India
• Cultural lag and social change
• Theories of social change
• Concept of evolution, development, and progress
• Social development
• Social progress
• Impact of social change
• Social movement types

1. INTRODUCTION

Social change is an ever-present phenomenon everywhere. Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, hinted at this fact in an emphatic way; he said that it is impossible for a man to step into the same river twice. It is impossible because in the interval of time between the first and the second stepping, both the river and the man have ...