Social Change

- Refers to the significant modification or alteration in the lifestyle of the society, including
culture.
- Means any significant shift or modification in the lifestyle of the society that affects the major
portion of the population that brings about the pattern of the behavior.
- May be brought about by cultural, religious, economic, scientific, or technological force.
Cultural Change
- Refers to the changes in cultural elements, both material ad non-material.
Political Change
- Is when there is a significant disruption in a government that leads to new or modified
leadership or policies.

Social Contradictions and tensions are ideas or beliefs that are thought to disrupt and be against the
societal norms and expectations that are present. The following are some examples of Social
Contradictions and tensions present in our society:
1.Inter-ethnic conflicts – a dispute between two or more ethnic groups. The source of conflict may be
over political, economic, social, cultural, or territorial matters.
(a) Ethnic groups fighting over dominance in position in the society.
(b) Cultural discrimination against an ethnic group.
2. Class struggle - the political conflict and economic hostility that occurs among the social groups of
society due to socio-economic rivalry.
(a) Tension between the rich and poor that exists until now.
(b) Direct violence such as wars for resources and cheap labor, assassinations or
revolution.
(c) Indirect violence such as deaths from poverty and starvation, illness and unsafe working conditions.
3. Armed conflicts - A political conflict in which armed combat involves the armed forces of at least one
state.
(a) States resort to armed force to deal with conflicts.
(b) Protracted armed violence occurring between governmental authorities and
organized armed groups.
4. Terrorism - the deliberate use of violence in a community to establish a general atmosphere of fear and
thus to achieve a clear political goal.
(a) Hijackings, hostage takings, kidnappings, mass shootings, car bombings, and,
frequently, suicide bombings.
5. Protest - A statement or action expressing disapproval of or opposition to something.
(a) Rally against a workplace to show your disapproval for their bad labor practices.
(b) People Power Revolution
6. Gender Issues - include all aspects and concerns related to women's and men's lives and situation in
society, to the way they interrelate, their differences in access to and use of resources, their activities, and
how they react to changes, interventions and policies.
(a) Difference in Political representation.
(b) Stereotypes the capabilities due to gender.

These social contradictions and tension disrupts order and norms in a society, therefore, it may also give
rise to different changes in our society in terms of:
Social
Changes in human interactions and interrelations may occur. Because of the conflict that these social
contradictions and tensions make, people may start to build walls or gaps with other people. An example
is the case with class struggle, because of the growing conflict between different classes, a different
impression will always be visible to one side about the other, where distrust for the other is shown,
therefore, resulting to disunity within our society.

Political
Social contradictions and tensions may cause significant disruption in a government and destroy balance
between the government and the citizens. One great example is terrorism, terrorists will continue to
oppose the government, and disrupt society, creating disturbance within the government and gaining the
lack of trust by the citizens and will eventually result to the government officials losing their credibility.
Cultural
Acculturation will highly occur due to these social contradictions and tensions. To avoid judgements and
misunderstandings, some cultures are forced to adjust in the method of living the members of society
partakes in. For instance, with the inter-ethnic conflicts, some will choose to hide their culture identity in
order for them to not be discriminated and to avoid any other dispute with the dominating ethnic group.
Those minorities will adapt to the society and change their mode of living and lifestyle, causing their
original culture to falter and be influenced.