Socio-cultural Change and the Role of Education:

Man is never satisfied with one thing. It has a natural tendency to change. Man's attitude keeps changing with time and place, along with time there is a change in his position.

This change also affects social institutions because all social institutions change when one institution affects other institutions as well, thus changes in institutions continue to take place over time.

 

 

These changes are called social change:

For example, when a new country comes into existence, the condition of its society is not what it is in the past. There have been clear changes in all institutions of society. Its economy, constitution, educational activities, social norms, etc. are all mixed up in a significant way if there is one institutional difference.

 

In view of some common basic needs of all human beings in the world, uniformity is found in their cultural life such as hunger, thirst, sex and sleep etc.

In every society and culture, examples of human character and behavior are defined, such as language, marriage and family system, cultural differences based on age and sex, government system, religion, knowledge, economic system, entertainment and art, etc.

They are the prominent qualities of a human being which he makes full use of  gaining a place in the society and define it as culture. Cultural change refers to a change in some aspect of cultural life i.e ideas, habits, customs, language and technology.

"Cultural change refers to changes in the core of a system that also affect society."

 

Socio-cultural variation is closely related, so sociologists use socio-cultural variation in the same sense because it is difficult to distinguish between them in practice, but theoretically, socio-cultural variation can be distinguished.

For example, the people living in the different parts  of the world can still be recognized from afar due to their cultural traditions, but they all belong to the same society of human beings.

Social changes in the world sometimes happen unconsciously and sometimes they are brought about under regular planning.

 

These changes sometimes change its structure and sometimes its functions. Unplanned change is adopted by individuals at their own will, for example, changing fashion in imitation of Western culture. This change is being adopted by being influenced by western culture. The changes brought about by planning are introduced to the general public through the efforts of a few people, for example, rural development programs, agricultural planning programs and many other welfare associations.

 

The role of education:

 

Through education and training, the personality traits of individuals flourish and develop. An individual without education is a walking robot, outwardly human in form but inwardly lacking the character of humanity which he needs in social life in groupings and in every relationship.

 

Education, makes aware of  the difference between man and animal, the manners of living in society, the basic routines and values ​​of social life, such as how to walk, eat, drink, dress, etc. It  plays its  role in the society in a special way by getting training in traditions. Education not only creates the ability to change and improve the old values ​​and traditions of the society but also preserves the civilization and culture of the society. These social values ​​are passed down from one generation to another.

 

And so it goes on. Apart from this, education also transmits national traditions and values ​​with modern changes in view of the needs of the society and adopts its virtues while accepting the criticism of the past and avoids adopting its unfavourable aspects.  Rather, it tries to bring appropriate changes in them by criticizing and commenting on them. Likewise education does the job of critical evaluator.

 

This critical process opens the way for the renewal of social thoughts and ideas, power in traditions and customs. It seems that education also performs the work of renewal and creation. Education about the human population has created a new mood in the people, resulting in new attitudes and based on new customs. A clear example of this is the tendency of having a small family.

 

Compared to uneducated people, educated people can do any work in the first way, like building roads, building a new bridge, running a car factory, or setting up a fire station, or a school, college and university,  running new cities and hospitals, developing trade, industry or agriculture, all the people belonging to these professions get infrastructure together.

 

The question arises that how to adapt the basic structure of these people so that the can lead to an increase in the country's wealth.

Education is an investment. Economists consider education as a necessary investment in the development of human resources. Or that human resources can be developed only through education. Education should teach both such essential skills.

 

Education must be based on such high standards and modern  techniques that a developing country can be  developed by  establishing  industries and factories in  by installing automatic machines and achieving maximum production through scientific methods.

The development of these sectors will require people who know modern methods of production who are capable of working on complex and automated machines for industrial development.

This  will surely provide thousands of trained people to carry out the construction work which we can do only with proper investment.  The developed countries should  share their knowledge and skills to the people of developing countries

through education that these people can  set up small industries Even in their to houses and thus they can help their country to get progress and the wealth of their respective countries.