SOCIAL CHANGE AS AN ASPECT OF THE INCREASING SCALE OF ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY ILLUSTRATED IN THE SECTOR OF EDUCATION

Razak, W. Nevell

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SOCIAL CHANGE AS AN ASPECT OF THE INCREASING SCALE OF ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY ILLUSTRATED IN THE SECTOR OF EDUCATION

Razak, W. Nevell

Abstract

Writing on the subject of social change has been characterized by a general and descriptive approach on one hand and a narrow focus on institutions on the other. As conceived here under the hypoches Ls of increasing scale of organization of society, change in a particular organization is seen as representative of and dynamically related to an organizational transformation of the carrying society as a whole. The crucial structural concept is interdependence among groups and their participant memberships. An analysis of changes in the Kansas State Department of Public Instruction, 1854-1952, is presented as an illustration of the hypothesis.