46. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL CHANGE
William Ogburn uses the term culture to indicate the material as well as the non-material achievements of man in society. From this point of view, cultural change will indicate change in material elements (e.g., tools, buildings, machines, and so on) as well as in relations, values, and behaviour patterns. Most of the sociologists use the term social change to imply changes in social life including non-material cultural aspects of man.
George Shanker explains that social change refers to whatever happens in the course of time to the patterned ways in which individuals react. For example, changing patterns of race relations as a result of the judicial decisions declaring segregation illegal ...
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