December 2, 2010 Thursday

Having completed a ruminations item, I'm beginning a Social Change Study in the Social-X series.

As a social phenomenon, change represents disturbance in the interactions among people in unpredictable ways.  Importantly, change in a cultural setting divides sharply those "in the know" of change from those following the rules and protocols of how things were done in the past.  It is chaos; it is social upheaval; it can lead to a cultural war between those threatening tradition and those being threatened by the change.

Typically, those of the New Way and those of traditional ways attempt to cope by simply living side-by-side; but society itself must integrate the change or the subgroups will separate into independent cultures..

I might expound more fully on the meaning of social change in a society as an item itself in the Study near the end.  Suffice it to point out that in America, the sharp dicotomy between the political Progressive and the Conservative is just such a breach brought about by Social Change.