COMMUNICATION AND ADOPTION 3(3+0)

Lesson 41 : Change Process

Technological factors

• Technology changes society by changing the environment. This change is usually in material environment and the adjustment which we make to these changes often modifies customs and social institutions.
• Importance to capital instead of labour
• Rise of factories as units of production than families
• Use of steam, electricity and atomic power instead of human and animal power
• Use of machines in place of human and animal labour
• Production for exchange in the markets and profits, but not for domestic consumption
• Development of world market than local market
• Improved means of transport and communication and currency based economy.
• Finally production relationships and industrial relationships increased.