Short Notes on Folkways, Cultural Change and Social Change


Folkways:
Folkways have become a common expression to designate customs. The folkways then are the recognised or accepted ways of behaving in society. The include conventions, form of etiquette and the myrid modes of behaviour men have evolved and continued to evolve with which to go about the business of social living. They are like products of natural forces which men unconsciously set in operation or they are like the instinctive ways of animal, which are developed out of experience, which reach a final form of maximum adaptation to an interest, which are handed down by tradition and admit of no exception or variation, yet change to meet new conditions, still with the same limited methods, and without rational reflection or purpose. But Gillin and Gillin have defined “Folkways by saying that Folkways are behaviour patterns of every day life which generally arise unconsciously in a group”. Another sociologist defines the folkways in different way that Folkways are simple habits of action common to the members of group. They are the way of folk that are some what standardised and have some degree of traditional sanctions for their persistence.

Cultural Change:
The cultural is the aspect of society, which includes norms while the learning of these norms in groups is social, the inventions of television and Radio-set are cultural changes the change brought in attitudes and behaviour of the people by these inventions are social changes all innovations including fact finding in research are cultural changes. The changes brought in society by the application of these innovations are social change, cultural change becomes social change. First there is cultural change which becomes social change in social life.

Social Change:
A social Change is difference of material objects and the attitudes of using things along the time and space. Social change involves such idea an interaction, movement, growth and function. Again he holds, that social change means that large number of person engaging some time before. We found our Pakistani society expanding its production of manufacturing industries by increase of almost six fold during the period 1950-61. Social change is meant only such alteration as occur in social organization that is the structure and function of society. It means leaving a thing or an attitude and adopting by a society is called social change.