Factors which promote social change

Age group — childhood, adulthood, old age. If the population of children is most then increase of population will be slower. If adults more than there will be rapid change in society cause they are the most regulative. In case of old more there is conflict in society they don't wish for change. Marital status in production of children. Status of women becomes lower. And if at too late a stage — a girl is married fertility is less. Higher birth rate creates a lot of problems. Malthus theme of population — Economics.

Over population-poverty unemployment increases. Death — rate — man — power decreases. Germany, September Elsevier Books Reference. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Sapan Khurana. Regene Layasan. Amol Patil. Arunesh Tripathi. Divyanshi Maurya. Amara Talib. Simran Sharma. Riya Singh. Jothikumar Adikesavalu. Saheen Hazarika. Show More. Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. The factors influencing for the social change 2. Our social life depends upon our beliefs, ideas, values, customs, conventions, institutions and the like.

When there is a change in these, it influences the social life. Climates change, soil erodes and lakes gradually turn into swamps and finally plains. A culture is greatly affected by such changes although sometimes they come about so slowly that they are largely unnoticed. Human misuse can bring very rapid changes in physical environment which in turn change the social and cultural life of a people.

Deforestation brings land erosion and reduces rainfall. Much of the wasteland and desert land of the world is a testament to human ignorance and misuse.

Environmental destruction has been at least a contributing factor in the fall of most great civilization. Many human groups throughout history have changed their physical environment through migration.

In the primitive societies whose members are very directly dependent upon their physical environment migration to a different environment brings major changes in the culture. Civilization makes it easy to transport a culture and practice it in a new and different environment. Population changes: A population change is itself a social change but also becomes a casual factor in further social and cultural changes. When a thinly settled frontier fills up with people the hospitality pattern fades away, secondary group relations multiply, institutional structures grow more elaborate and many other changes follow.

A stable population may be able to resist change but a rapidly growing population must migrate, improve its productivity or starve. Great historic migrations and conquests of the Huns, Vikings and many others have arisen from the pressure of a growing population upon limited resources.

Migration encourages further change for it brings a group into a new environment subjects it to new social contacts and confronts it with new problems. No major population change leaves the culture unchanged. Isolation and Contact: Societies located at world crossroads have always been centers of change. Since most new traits come through diffusion, those societies in closest contact with other societies are likely to change most rapidly.

In ancient times of overland transport, the land bridge connecting Asia, Africa and Europe was the centre of civilizing change. Later sailing vessels shifted the centre to the fringes of the Mediterranean Sea and still later to the north- west coast of Europe. Areas of greatest intercultural contact are the centers of change.

War and trade have always brought intercultural contact and today tourism is adding to the contacts between cultures says Greenwood. Conversely isolated areas are centers of stability, conservatism and resistance to change. The most primitive tribes have been those who were the most isolated like the polar Eskimos or the Aranda of Central Australia.

Social Structure: The structure of a society affects its rate of change in subtle and not immediately apparent ways. A society which vests great authority in the very old people as classical China did for centuries is likely to be conservative and stable. The increasing gap between the technological haves and have-nots——sometimes called the digital divide——occurs both locally and globally. Further, there are added security risks: the loss of privacy, the risk of total system failure like the Y2K panic at the turn of the millennium , and the added vulnerability created by technological dependence.

Think about the technology that goes into keeping nuclear power plants running safely and securely. Millions of people today walk around with their heads tilted toward a small device held in their hands. Perhaps you are reading this textbook on a phone or tablet. People in developed societies now take communication technology for granted.

How has this technology affected social change in our society and others? One very positive way is crowdsourcing. Thanks to the web, digital crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.

Web-based companies such as Kickstarter have been created precisely for the purposes of raising large amounts of money in a short period of time, notably by sidestepping the traditional financing process.

This book, or virtual book, is the product of a kind of crowdsourcing effort. It has been written and reviewed by several authors in a variety of fields to give you free access to a large amount of data produced at a low cost. The largest example of crowdsourced data is Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia which is the result of thousands of volunteers adding and correcting material. Perhaps the most striking use of crowdsourcing is disaster relief. By tracking tweets and e-mails and organizing the data in order of urgency and quantity, relief agencies can address the most urgent calls for help, such as for medical aid, food, shelter, or rescue.

On January 12, a devastating earthquake hit the nation of Haiti. By January 25, a crisis map had been created from more than 2, incident reports, and more reports were added every day. The same technology was used to assist victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in The U.

We generally think of this as cyberbullying. A study by the U. Department of Education found that From the same sample 9 percent specifically reported having been a victim of cyberbullying Robers et al. Cyberbullying represents a powerful change in modern society. William F. That is, society may not fully comprehend all the consequences of a new technology and so may initially reject it such as stem cell research or embrace it, sometimes with unintended negative consequences such as pollution.

Cyberbullying is a special feature of the Internet. Unique to electronic aggression is that it can happen twenty-four hours a day, every day; it can reach a child or an adult even though she or he might otherwise feel safe in a locked house. The messages and images may be posted anonymously and to a very wide audience, and they might even be impossible to trace. Finally, once posted, the texts and images are very hard to delete.

Its effects range from the use of alcohol and drugs to lower self-esteem, health problems, and even suicide CDC, n. According to the Megan Meier Foundation web site a , Megan Meier had a lifelong struggle with weight, attention deficit disorder, and depression.

But then a sixteen-year-old boy named Josh Evans asked Megan, who was thirteen years old, to be friends on the social networking web site MySpace.

The two began communicating online regularly, though they never met in person or spoke on the phone. Now Megan finally knew a boy who, she believed, really thought she was pretty. But things changed, according to the Megan Meier Foundation web site b.

That night Megan hanged herself in her bedroom closet, three weeks before what would have been her fourteenth birthday. Each change in a single social institution leads to changes in all social institutions.