21st Century Writings

Developing societies of the world today are experiencing a comprehensive proves of modernization and change. Among the usual concomitant features of modernization are interrelated to process of urbanization and industrialization. Some other aspects for modernization are scientific and technological advancement, and development of transformation, communication, and mass media. Urbanization is manifested by the steady flow of people from the rural areas to the city. This urban concentration is spurred by the economic opportunities associated with the development of trade, commerce, and manufacturing. The city becomes the center of trade and industry. It also becomes a crucial social, cultural, educational, and recreational center. Thus, it attracts people from all walks of life.

On the other hand, industrialization, consequently affect the family.  I consider this is more favorable attitudes towards working wives and mothers; the transfer of production function from the home to the factory of industry has opened new avenues for female employment. There are an increasing number of female workers and employees.

The family had a biggest role in every society. It is the basic or the most fundamental unit in any society. Other sociologists and anthropologists define the family as a group of people who are united by ties of marriage, ancestry, or adoption, and who are reorganized by the community as constituting a single household and as having responsibility for rearing children. On the other hand, the United States census defines the family as two or more persons who are related to each other blood, marriage, or adoption and who live together. However, there is a broadening concept of the family to include adults who are not relatives but who have a commitment to each other and want to live together, in some sense as a family.

The family may be viewed as a subsystem with interacting personalities. The members interact with one another in their reciprocal role, supported by a set of norms attitudes, and values drown mostly from the larger society.

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.