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Class-XI

Chapter-7

Book-2

Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban

Society

Short Notes :

• Change is the most permanent feature of any society.
• Social change refers to transformation in the methods of thinking &
working of people.

• It is basically changes in social structures and social relationships of a
society.

• According to M.D. Jenson, “Social change may be defined as modification
in ways of doing and thinking of people.”
• Anderson & Parker, “Social change involves alteration in the structure or

functioning of social forms or processes themselves.”
• Social change refers to changes in structure and culture of the society.
• Social change remains a very broad term. It try to classify by its sources or

causes, by its nature or the kind of impact it has on society and by its pace
or speed.
• For ex- Evolution

• It is a kind of change that takes place slowly over a long period of time.
• This term was given by the natural scientist Charles Darwin.
• He proposed a theory of how living organisms evolve or change slowly over
centuries by adapting themselves to natural circumstances.

• He emphasized the idea of “The Survival of the fittest.”