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Explain the role of cultural factors in Social change.

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Cultural factor Man is a social human being. Also man is a cultural being, the term society itself express that it is a cultural phenomenon. Without culture it is difficult to understand social life.

Mainly three Process can be observed which bring change:

  • Discovery: discovery is the perception which unfold a reality that already exists, for eg. Vasco- D-Gama discovered way to India by sea.
  • Invention: invention is use of existing knowledge to produce something that did not exist before
  • Diffusion: diffusion is the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another. For egg. Western culture is spreading in east. Buddhism and its culture spread in China and SriLanka.
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