CHANGING TRENDS IN THE

FILIPINO CULTURE
Youth Volunteerism
 Active political and social engagement
Social Media
Texting capital, Cybercommunity, Online Business
Transnational Families
OFWs, Women in the Workplace
LGBT Community
Gender Equality
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 Social Change
 Basic Concepts of Social Change
 Theories on Social Change
 Barriers to Social Change

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 Basic concepts of social change

Social change
• General process of the alteration of the
structure of society
• Change in social structure
• Any event or action that affects a group of
individuals that have shared values or
characteristics
• Acts of advocacy for the cause of changing
society in a normative way

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 Basic concepts of social change
Factors of social change
• Physical environment
• Population changes
• Isolation and contact
• Social structure skollworldforum.org

• Attitudes and values

• Technological factors

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Processes in social change
• Formulated by William Fielding Ogburn
• Includes four steps:
 Invention
 Mental ability
 Demand
 Existence of cultural elements
 Accumulation
 Diffusion
 Adjustment

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