Change occurs everywhere. This is a phenomenon that characterizes the world in which we live. All of us are, therefore, a part of an ever-changing world. Some of these many aspects of changes in our social world are changes on our institutions, changes in material culture, cultural diffusion, and changes on our population.
Everyone faces the regular seasonal and annual cycles as well as the cycles of birth, infancy, childhood, adulthood, marriage, child-bearing, old age, and death. Change has been regarded in many ways, as a means, as an end, as a process, as a social movement, as a state of affairs, as involving a program, a principle, and ideology, a doctrine, or even a problem.
Social change has been defined as the alteration of patterns of social organizations, structure, institutions, and intergroup or intergroup behaviors over time. It is pervasive in all societies and affects all individuals, in one way or another. Change is pervasive in culture, society and personality. Changes in culture bring about changes in society and human beings. Likewise, changes in society and in a human being bring about changes in culture.
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