Power

Micro level and Macro level

Micro dynamic level

Power is mostly associated by the ability to earn Money

Means of family is earned by father – so the dominant power is in the hand of male of the family in
patriarchal society

Function

Positive

- Creates order, peace

- Security for weak / dependent people

Conflict

- Don ‘Gunda’ Vs State

- Misuse of power by politicians
- Monopoly of resources by small number of people
- Discrimination and Inequality – broadens

Economy

Functionalist approach

- It is good because excess can be sold and needed can be bought

Conflict approach

- The supplier and buyer are being deprived due to the middle man

Social Change and Social Movement

Social Change

The social change is always temporal.

- Behavioral change
- Economy changes
- Cultural change
- Industrial change

Factors of social change

- Education
- New innovations / technologies
- Globalization

Westernization and Modernization

Westernization

- To copy western life style

Modernization

- To adopt sophisticated life style

- Society changes
- Urbanization
- Industrialization, etc.