Page 3 - Lessonnote_Social Change and Social Order in Rural and Urban Society

• Use of gunpowder, paper, mode of transport, railways and communication

have brought tremendous social changes.

Effects of technology

1) Technology and different process

a) Industrialisation

b) Urbanisation

c) Modernisation

2) Technology and Social life

a) Caste

b) Joint family

c) Marriage

d) Religion

e) State

3) Technology and Economic life

a) Transportation and communication

b) War

c) Agriculture

Economic factor:

Karl Marx is the chief architect of the economic theory of social change. He
believes that social change is basically the result of economic factor.

Marx developed society from

Agriculture---- Feudalism---- Capitalism----Socialism

Capitalism lead to class struggle between the 2 classes whose interest clashes

because of their diverse, conflicting aims – the bourgeois(the owners of the
means of production) and the proletariat (the workers who work for a wage