The process of change is a perpetual phenomenon. Changes are also reflected in many significant social and cultural domains of people's life. Many factors are responsible for social change. This book deals with a number of issues concerning social change. The main topics included herein are -Era of Change; Roots of Indignation; Intellectual Change; European Wave; Muslims Awakening; The New Wave; Urban Culture; Wave of Secularism; Developments in Society; Women's Role; Individual's Society; and Future Prospects; etc.

Social impact is analysed in this book from different angles. This book consists of the following chapters-sociological Impact; Perceptional Impact; Legal Impact; Impact of Social Stratification; Impact of Class System; Impact by Women; and Impact of Theories; etc. Certainly, the information contained herein will benefit students, scholars and teachers besides other social scientists.

Sociology, before it took its place as a teaching discipline, had emerged as a generalized social ideology which viewed social institutions of the societies from a scientific evolutionary view point at a global level. This was particularly so in case of the societies with a history of past civilization. Many crucial issues on social evolution are analysed in pros and cons in the present book, which consists of the following topics- Introduction; Beginning of Civilization; Social Perception; Familial Factors; Blood Relationships; Caste Factors; Social Orientation; Social Challenges; Theorical Basis; and Role of Movement; etc.

The democratic process of social transformation has to be consensual and reconciliatory in nature. This alone ensures social mobility, diffusion of economic and cultural privilege and resources in society contributing ultimately to emergence of a socialist, democratic and just society. As suggested by the name of the title, this book deals with basic elements of social movements, with some case studies in the Indian context. Following are the contents-Introduction; Basic perception; Youth Movements; Women's Movements; Backward Class Movements; religious Movements (Punjab); Movements of Reform (Karnataka); Movements of Peasants (Uttar Pradesh); and tribal Movements; etc.