Aspects of Sociology: Social Change, Social Movement, Class in Australia, Youth Subcultures

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SOCIAL CHANGE.........................................................................................................................2
SOCIAL MOVEMENT...................................................................................................................4
CLASS IN AUSTRALIA................................................................................................................6
YOUTH SUBCULTURES IN AUSTRALIA TODAY..................................................................8

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SOCIAL CHANGE
It is the law of nature that everything changes with the passage of time. Man has evolved
from the Paleolithic age to the Neolithic age. If anything is settled, immobile or stagnant, it is
considered to be lifeless, and poisonous (Cohen and Felson 2016). It is also true that no change
is permanent. Change is needed for refreshment, recreation and thus can be noticed in every
domain of life. It occurs with the society also. Society is subject to transform, reconstruct,
modify, decline and rejuvenate according to the situation (Guo and Saxton 2014). The
individuals construct a society. Hence, social change refers to the change in the ways of living of
the individuals that effects the social correlations and interactions. It is done to keep all societies
in a state of equilibrium. (Maclnnes and Diaz 2009)
This present era can be identified as the era of liquid modernity, because it is neither the
modern era nor the postmodern era. Zygmunt Bauman’s, liquid modernity is an expression that
can down tread the idea of postmodernism, in the contemporary world every individual is driven
by desire, not by need: the reality is life counts what is fleeting rather than stable, the instant
rather than time -consuming; and considers the worth rather than value. Today the individual
relationships and the relationships with the society are constantly changing because the
identities, individuals and individuality are turning insignificant and void (Bauman 2005)