SOCIAL, CULTURAL

AND POLITICAL
CHANGES
RONELYN A. SEDUCO
SUBJECT TEACHER
Words pa More
•list words as many as you
can related to social,
cultural and political
changes
Activity
A.SOCIAL CAUSES CONSEQUENCES
CHANGE
     
     
B.CULTURAL CAUSES CONSEQUENCES
CHANGES
 ANALYSIS:
• Describe your observations on social and cultural
changes. Cite examples
• What do you think are the reasons why those given
phenomena happened?
• What do you think are the implications of these social
and cultural changes in our society this time and the
future generations?
Social Change
• Socialchange, in sociology, the
alteration of mechanisms within the 
social structure, characterized by
changes in cultural symbols, rules of
behaviour, social organizations, or
value systems.
• Inthe mid-20th century, anthropologists borrowed
from the linguistic theory of structuralism to
elaborate an approach to social change called 
structural functionalism. This theory postulated
the existence of certain basic institutions
(including kinship relations and division of labour)
that determine social behaviour. Because of their
interrelated nature, a change in one institution will
affect other institutions.
• Varioustheoretical schools
emphasize different aspects of
change. Marxist theory suggests that
changes in modes of production can
lead to changes in class systems,
which can prompt other new forms of
change or incite class conflict. 
• A different view is conflict theory, which
operates on a broad base that includes
all institutions. The focus is not only on
the purely divisive aspects of conflict,
because conflict, while inevitable, also
brings about changes that promote
social integration. 
• Structural-functional theory
emphasizes the integrating
 forces in society that
ultimately minimize instability.
CULTURAL
CHANGES
Horton & Hunt: "changes in the culture of society is called
cultural change.“

Kingsley Davis: "cultural changes embarrasses Occurring in any

branch of culture including, art, science, technology, philosophy
etc. as well as changes in the forms and rules of social
organization."
David Dressler and Donald Caens:
"It is the modification or
discontinuance of existing 'tried' and
'tested' procedures transmitted to us
from the culture of the past, as well
as the introduction of new
procedures."
Sources of Cultural Change

• Discovery. Discovery is a new perception of an aspect of reality that already

exists.
• Invention. Invention is the combination or new use of existing knowledge to
produce something that did not exist before
• Diffusion. Diffusion is the spreading of cultural traits from group to another
group.
• Acculturation.
• Assimilation. Assimilation. It is the process of combination of two cultures in
to one culture with comprising cultural traits.
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