What is the influence of cultural diffusion on socio-cultural integration and transformation?
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Explanation:
This article throws light upon the seven major factors that influences socio-cultural changes. The factors are: 1. Physical Factors 2. Economic Factors 3. Impact of Ideas and Ideologies 4. Cultural Diffusion, 5. Scientific and Technological Factors 6. Political Factors 7. Educational Factor.
Socio-Cultural Changes: Factor # 1.
Physical Factors:
Some physical factors are responsible for social change. Society suffers a lot due to natural calamities like flood, cyclone, famine, earthquake, volcanic eruption and war. Such factors bring a vast change in the location, size and population of the society. Old civilization came to an end and new civilization came to existence owing to this change.
Socio-Cultural Changes: Factor # 2.
Economic Factors:
The progress of the society is mainly determined by means of production which may be agricultural, industrial, rural or urban depending on economic status. Industrialization is responsible to form different classes of people in society such as capitalists, industrialists, and hoarders, middle and poor class people.
Economic factors create new township, cities, industries, factories which bring a social change in a newly social form.
Ideas and ideologies have been responsible to social change. Main ideas like liberty, equality, and fraternity, the world famous revolution was brought by ideas during France revolution in 1789. There were other revolutions like such revolutions brought a great change in their societies.
Ideologies like fascism, democracy, communism, socialism, humanism etc. have a very powerful influence on the changing pattern of the society.
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