Socio-cultural changes are intrinsic processes that occur in a particular human group, based on a typical trait that is on them, such as gender, ethnicity, nation, subculture, religion, profession, race, and even hobbies. The process of change, in maknakan as evolution and socio-cultural revolution. The road can be with, among others, acculturation, inventasi, urbanization, globalization, the market also.
Those concerned about social change difficulty understanding human social movement that is faster than the suspicion and the ability of applied science under their control.
Because the cultural cohesiveness of the times the more unstable and volatile, customs can not be sustained due to the strengthening of the way through education has become more equally around the world, who use a feature of modern education from primary level up to college. This is also eliminating the 'meaning' of human life because their habits are so rapidly changing and changing.
Changes socio-cultural society is not static, allowing changes. Changes that occur in accordance with the development of human thought are increasingly advanced, especially for science and technology. Relationships had changed and the cultures that exist and are considered obsolete before becoming obsolete.
The occurrence of these changes are caused by several things, namely as follows.
1. The causes that originate from within their own society and culture. For example, changes in the number and composition of the population.
2. Causes changes in the natural and physical environment in which they live. Whose lives are an open society, which is in lines with public relations and other cultures tend to change more quickly.
Changes in different social and cultural change. Changes in social change social structures and patterns of social relationships. Among others, concerning the system status, relationships within the family, politics and power systems, as well as the dispersion of the population.
Meanwhile, the meaning of cultural change is the change that occurs in systems of ideas shared by the community, among other rules, norms are used as a handle in life, as well as technology, tastes, sense of beauty (art), and language . Although social change den change in the culture is different, the discussion of these two changes will not achieve a true sense if it does not relate to one another.
One form of social change is a process of imitation by the younger generation against the older generation. This process is done by learning to imitate that is not necessarily perfect. The process of imitation or impersonation will be slow and we feel the changes after reaching a certain period of time. While changes in advanced societies are usually manifested through the discovery process (discovery) in the form of a new creation (invention) and the diffusion process.
Discovery in question is a new kind of discovery that changed perceptions about the nature of a symptom of the relationship of two or more symptoms. While the invention is a new form of creation in the form of objects (knowledge) that go through the process of creation and knowledge-based on combining existing knowledge about the objects and phenomena.
Events Culture Change
Following the events of cultural change which will also affect social change.
Cultural Lag
Cultural lag is the difference between the level of progress of various parts of the culture of a society. That is, cultural lag, the time lapse between the moment of cultural products was first introduced and when it was generally accepted until the people can adjust to these cultural products.
Cultural Survival
Cultural survival is a concept that others, in the sense that the concept is used to describe a practice that has lost the function of the importance of one hundred percent, that still live and act solely on the foundation of the customs alone.
As long as society exists, there will always be socio-cultural changes in society. In another expression, it is said that the unchanging fact of change itself. Socio-cultural changes have a general sense as the changes caused by changes in geographical, cultural, demographic, innovation beliefs, and other things that can cause people to change from time to time.
Community type
Talking about the socio-cultural changes in society, we will recognize two types of people who experience these changes, is as follows.
- Closed society.
- Dynamic society.
Closed society is a society that is so hard to receive social and cultural change. The main factor because of the lack of education. Typically, the community is located in the interior. For example, Papua or Kalimantan. Socio-cultural changes in society happens slowly once. In fact, stagnant.
As with the closed society, a dynamic society is experiencing rapid socio-cultural changes, in addition to factors that are relatively higher education also have access to information that is always updated (muthakhir) regarding the socio-cultural changes so that they can quickly adapt to situations and conditions. These communities live in big cities.
Social and Cultural Changes Based on Time
Socio-cultural changes in society in terms of time, split in two, is as follows.
1. revolution
The revolution known as the socio-cultural changes in society that goes fast, despite relatively rapid course. The revolution may just happen without any planning at all and be done with violence or so-called bloody revolution. On the other hand, the revolution can be planned in such a way and without using violence at all.
One thing is for sure, the revolution want change a system that is running the break and build a new system such as when a student down Suharto.
2. evolution
In contrast, evolution is a socio-cultural changes in society that lasts longer and is identical to natural selection. In evolution, the properties of the former is still very likely passed on to the next generation as well even though there are some left.
Any change of course has its advantages and disadvantages. Likewise, socio-cultural changes in society. Here are some disadvantages as well advantages picture of socio-cultural change.
Profit
- A change in attitude. This occurs because the opening of information and interaction with other people.
- The existence of discipline. This happens because the open and rigorous competition in all areas. People who will win the competition it would have to have discipline capital.
- An increase in science. This happens because the stimulus to obtain and study the science becomes increasingly large. It is undeniable, the better the quality of the knowledge society, the quality of life would be even better.
- An increase in technology. This happens because the rapid advancement of science is identical with the rapid advancement of technology so advanced society, inevitably, have technological literacy, not technology illiterate.
- Improvement of language. This happens because the socio-cultural change requires a change in language. At least, in the association, it takes a good knowledge of Indonesian language and the right, in addition to highly expected that a good foreign language skills.
Loss
- Westernized lifestyle because it still can not understand the nature of social change in the culture itself.
- Wasteful life. No doubt, certain people will have a consumptive nature, especially in buying goods that are considered modern.
- Social unrest. Because of the limits of individuals became increasingly close, the level of crime is becoming increasingly vulnerable and lead to social unrest.
