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Discuss various theories of social change. Explain the limitations of unilinear theory of social change.

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  • Social Change in Modern Society

Kingsley Davis defined social change as alterations in social organisation — the structure and functions of society. Sociological theories of change differ on three questions: the direction of change, its engine, and the unit analysed. The unilinear evolutionary theory with which the discipline began answers all three most confidently, and is for that reason the…

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  • The main families of theory
  • Limitations of the unilinear theory
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