Social change is the central problem of sociology. Sociologists have explained the question on how social change comes about largely by the close analysis of particular change processes and by refining definitions. Social change theories encompass a very broad range of phenomena, including short-term, and long term, large-scale and small scale changes.
Social change refers to any significant alteration over time in behaviour patterns and cultural values and norms. In functionalism, social change is represented by transformation in the social morphology, or the structure of social relations that link individuals into a coherent entity, society and the moral structure or the body of laws. Functionalism sees the changes to happen within the society itself without any intervention from external forces. Functionalists regard the changes as inevitable and happen automatically. Due to the growth in organizations and the development of industrialization, the existing relations of production need to be expanded and renewed to contain the development of the forces of production.
A segment of a social network
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
A portrait of Karl Marx.Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), a leading functionalist saw society in its natural state as being stabled and a balanced. He also believed that social change is a process of social evolution from simple to more complex forms of society. Just like Auguste Comte's stages of human development model 9theological, metaphysical and science stages), he developed his own 'epochs' in which the last 'epoch' is towards historicisms, a belief in laws of history, the inevitability of social development and progress.
According to functionalists, the basic prerequisites of society, adaptation, goal attainment, integration and pattern maintenance systems are inter-related, a change in one will produce responses in the others. Changes come about when the important divisions of society like the family, law and religion play their role to overcome the differences and control the disturbance thus restore the system to equilibrium. Therefore social...
Social Change
Overall: SInce it is an informative type of essay, i think you have probably used or referred to many sources which did not appear much throghout the paper! See, beginning with the first paragraph, you give a detail or a fact which you obviously got from somewhere!(you didn;t say where you got it though)
ANother aspect of your essay would be the word "Social Change" which after reading for about 3 or 4 paragraphs became hackneyed cuz it's overly used. Try to use some pronouns or other "names" that might imply it. Especially in a paragraph!! I noticed you used this word probably three times in like two sentences! That makes the essay vague and not that desirable or attractive.
Okkkkeeyyy... so what else! Hmmmm
Oh yeah, after reading it I started reflecting on it, and what i basically got from it was that what you are really doing is presenting an actual event or fact that is happening which is not really resolved. But with your essay though you are not giving any ideas or opinions what the "social change" really is. What you are doing is basically interpreting the sociologists ideas which as mentioned in the last paragraph (conclusion) will "provide the ground for further studies by future sociologists".
I think you should have interfered in there, trying to give your idea, and then support it by evidences you might have found! Now, I am not blaming you cuz I do not know what the "background" of this essay was, meaning that what the assignment really asked!
But, hey, don't get me wrong! I liked your essay, and one little secret:
If i read the whole thing that means it was interesting enough to finish it!!!!:)
Have fun and hope it helps!
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