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Socio-Cultural Change

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">As discussed earlier that&comma; society is dynamic&semi; in ever changing state&period; Society&comma; culture&comma; cultural norms and institutions change over the period of time&period; Change in culture&comma; philosophy&comma; technology&comma; arts&comma; institutions etc&period; within a given society is known as socio culture change&period; Each generation within a society come up with new ideas which is added in our culture&period; Some of the old ideas become obsolete according to the new environment of society&period; Static societies are considered as dead societies they cannot progress and compete in the new world&period; Science has discovered and invented many things over the period of time&comma; adaptation to new environment have become necessary for every society&period; It has made the life of people easy&period; People can save time and work efficiently and effectively by the use of new technology&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Those societies which are resistant to socio cultural change cannot progress and will lag behind in material and non-material culture&period; Let’s take some examples of socio cultural change&comma; before the advent of computers&comma; telephone and internet correspondence among the individuals was carried out through letters&comma; which was very time consuming&period; After the invention of telephone correspondence among people became easy and much time was saved by this new discovery and invention&period; Public organizations and private organization used type writers and calculators for the record keeping of daily&comma; monthly and yearly financial and commercial activities&period; However&comma; with the advent of computers and internet official work and record keeping become much easier and saved a lot of time for the people&period; Use of internet and computers made correspondence&comma; record keeping&comma; book keeping and report writing very easy for the professionals and organizations&period; Due to these invention&comma; organization and professionals can work efficiently and effectively&period; These socio cultural change resulted in the progress of societies&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">When cultural change occurs&comma; social groups&comma; individuals&comma; institutions and social system change with it too within a given society&period; Norms are the standards of the behavior which an individual have to follow within an institution&comma; group and society&period; We can say it’s the cultural aspect of society&period; However&comma; individual who follow or mold their attitude according to those norms can be called social aspect of the society&period; For instance rules and regulations are cultural and learning and following those rules are social&period; Both concept and terms are correlated&period; When any change take place in a culture is called cultural change&period; Adopting and practicing that change is called social change&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">When cultural change occurs&comma; it changes the attitude of individuals as well which leads to social change&period; If people attitudes change &lpar;social change&rpar; it results in cultural change&period; Thus&comma; any social change leads to change in the norms of social system and institutions&period; Let’s continue the example of computer and internet&comma; when public and private organizations adopted this new technology because of it efficiency and effectiveness&period; Social and cultural change occurred with this new development&period; Educational institutions introduced computer science programs for students&period; Organizations change the criteria for hiring staff &lpar;knowledge of computer and internet become mandatory&rpar;&period; Information technology departments were established in the organizations&period; Parents motivated their children to acquire computer knowledge or to get degree in computer science&period; Means of transactions changed in financial sectors&period; New institutions developed due to the development &lpar;software companies&rpar;&period; As we know that&comma; all the institutions within a society is dependent on one another&period; So socio cultural change will bring changes in all the institutions of society and may result in establishment of new institution to satisfy the new needs of individuals&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">So now that we understand the concept of socio cultural change&period; Now let’s discuss the sources of socio cultural change&period; Diffusion&comma; acculturation and assimilation are some sources of cultural change&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cultural diffusion” is the spreading of culture from one group to another or from one society to another&period; Cotton bed sheet was domesticated in India now it has been adopted by the people all over the world&period; Soap was invented by the ancient Gaul’s but people adopted using soap for good hygiene all over the world&period; Currently&comma; people are using liquid soaps but the idea came from the ancient Gaul’s&period; Smoking cigarette is common amongst people in many parts of the world&period; However&comma; it was the discovery of Mexicans&period; The term &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Acculturation” means transmission of culture&comma; it usually happens when two cultures come into contact&period; When people adopt the norms values and beliefs of other culture and switch from their native culture to the host culture&comma; is known as acculturation&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Assimilation” refers to the process&comma; in which minority culture absorbs into the dominant culture&comma; within a particular society&period; The process of change in native culture &lpar;minority culture&rpar; could be gradual or quick&semi; depends on the circumstances&period; Usually&comma; immigrants adopt the dominant culture to survive in new society&period; By adopting the host culture&comma; they don’t feel outsiders and feel like&semi; they are part of majority group&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Some societies resist to cultural change&period; It can be due to the insufficient economic resources&period; Some people or societies want to adopt the change but their financial or economic condition become hindrance in cultural change&period; Adaptation of technology in different sectors or institution can be very expensive for a group or society&period; If society lack the resources to adopt the technology they resist to the change&period; Societies and groups which are isolated from the other groups and societies may not get information of new developments&period; Therefore&comma; they cannot adopt change due to the lack of information and isolation&period; Some conservative societies do not accept change because they consider it violation of norms&period; In such society violation of norms by an individual is considered a crime and may result in severe punishment&period; People in such society resist change due to the fear of punishment&period; Some changes are difficult for people to understand and learn&comma; like old people resist technological change because it is difficult for them to learn the use of new technology&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; 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