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Social change, according to Anthony Giddens, is an 'Alteration in basic structures of social group or society'
Social change, according to Anthony Giddens, is an 'Alteration in basic structures of social group or society'
Giddens 1989:730
Everything is changing; from the psychological to the social and physical environment there is change everywhere. Social change can be define as a significant alteration in the basic structures of the society or the social and material life of a social group. It is the social changes occurring in social groups or the society in general that are of concern to sociological analysis. When we talk of a social structure of a society, we are referring to social institutions such as the economy, family, law, politics, religion, and education with particular reference to the norms and values as well as the authority and power relationships within them. These institutions are the structures that constitute the workings of the society. A social group, according to Sherif and Sherif, is: A social unit consisting of a number of individuals who stand in role and status relationships to one another, stabilised in some degree at the time, and who possess a set of values, or norms of their own regulating their behaviour, at least in matters of consequence to the group
Everything is changing; from the psychological to the social and physical environment there is change everywhere. Social change can be define as a significant alteration in the basic structures of the society or the social and material life of a social group. It is the social changes occurring in social groups or the society in general that are of concern to sociological analysis. When we talk of a social structure of a society, we are referring to social institutions such as the economy, family, law, politics, religion, and education with particular reference to the norms and values as well as the authority and power relationships within them. These institutions are the structures that constitute the workings of the society. A social group, according to Sherif and Sherif, is: A social unit consisting of a number of individuals who stand in role and status relationships to one another, stabilised in some degree at the time, and who possess a set of values, or norms of their own regulating their behaviour, at least in matters of consequence to the group
Sherif and Sherif, 1969:276
