Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

NEED TO STUDY THE PROCESSES OF SOCIAL CHANGE

• Sociologists and Anthropologists during the end of 19^th century were involved in research pertaining to the formation of society from their original primitive form.
• The formation of colonialism in 17^th and 18^th century followed by democratic institutions, industrialisation and emergence of democratic institutions in the 19^th century made the sociologist to work on the onset of these changes.
• The First World War which took place in Europe, the tremendous communist revolution in Russia, the Second World War (1939 - 1945) and the formation of new states like India in 1947, saw the emergence of newer problems of social change and development.
• Many erstewhile colonies have become independent states and have accepted modern economic organisations by industrialisation, so as to increase their standard of living. These changes have encouraged sociologists to engage in the study of social change.
• In India the task of changing from agriculture to industrial society, from colonial to republican society and a society based on caste and class to a society which aims to be casteless and classless with equal opportunity is looked upon. Hence it is necessary to study how the transformation and analyse the nature of resistance, slowing down the process of transformation.