Explain social order and social change …

Social change

• Change is the most permanent feature of any society. Social change can be defined as transformation in the methods of thinking and working of people.
• It is basically changes in social structures and social relationships of a society.
• At the most basic level, social change refers to changes that are significant and which alter the underlying structure of an object or situation over a period of time.
• Social change does not include any and all changes, but only big ones, changes which transform things fundamentally.

Social order

• Social order means systematic arrangement of the social structure.
• It helps in active maintenance and reproduction of patterns of social relationships.
• It helps society to prevent, control and regulate social changes.
• Social order is needed for systematic functioning of society.
• Social order is generally the periphery of the dominant groups. Hence, any changes that may alter their stability in the society will be resisted by them.