Discuss two different approaches to studying cultural change.
In regard to internal causes, for example, new method of forming or agriculture can boost agricultural production, which can transformed the value of food consumption and quality of life of an afrigerian community.
On the other hand external intervension in the form of conquest or calonisation can also effect deepsiled changes in the cultural practices and behaviour of a society.
Natural Environment : Cultural change can take place due to changes in natural environment, contact withother cultures or processes of adoptation. Changes is national environment or enology can drastically alter the way of life of the people.
Example : For example when forest dwelling commities are deprived of across to the forest and its produced either because of legal restriction or due to its desimation, it can have disasters effects on the dwellers and their way of life.
Tribal communities in North East India as well as have been middle India the worst affect by the loss of forest resources.
Revolutionary Changes : Along with evolutionary change their can also be revolutionary change. When culture is transfered rapidly and its values and meaning system undergo a. radical change than revolutionary change takes place.
Revolutionary change can be initialed through political intervention, technological inovention or ecological transformation.
Example : (a) Political Revoltion : The French Revolution (1789) transformed French society by destroying the state system of ranking, abolishing the monarchy, and inculcating the values of liberty, equality and fralornity among its citizens.
(b) Coming of different understanding among the People : When a different understanding comes to prenaol, cultural change occurs for example recent 50 years have seen an amazing expansion of the media, both electronic and print. Do you think the “media, had brought about an evolutionary or revolutionary change ?
We are familiar with various dimensions of culture. Through socialisation and the role and different agency related with socialisation such as family, peergroup, school, mass media (Newspaper, generals, magezins, radio, television, cinema etc.). We can understand social change very quickly.
We can enjoy and can see the different people individually enjoying of freedom of expression, religion, movement and so an we can study cultural changing without no difficulty.
