Emerging Trends and Changes in Sri Lankan Society: Sociological Perspective

Abstract

Society is a collection of a people who live together in an organized way and making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/society, 04.10.2019). Its structures, institutions, norms, ways of life and problems are changeable. As social structures and forces influence on members of the society and reshape their lives, and accordingly they respond and make choices and actions (www.sociologydiscussion.com/sociology/theories-of-socialchange-meaning-nature-and-processes/2364, 11.12.2019).
“Change” means a varying in anything. Change is unavoidable and it is the law of nature. According to the Buddhist philosophy, change is the only thing which is not changed in the world. What is appearing now is not actually the same even though it is seemingly the same in the next moment. Likewise, what the shape of the society in tomorrow would be vastly different from how it exists today. This nature of social change is a universal phenomenon which ever present in any society (Form and Nico in https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-change, 14.11. 2019). The term social change is used to indicate the changes that take place in human interactions and interrelations. Society is a web of social relationships and hence social change means change in the system of social relationships (www.sociologyguide.com/social-change/index.php, 20.02.2019).