by Stacey del Socorro
We are living in an age of such rapid, thoroughgoing, universal social change that sociology and anthropology is, as never before, the science at the moment. There have been earlier periods of tremendous social changes based from philosophers: the proposition from the oligarchy of the early Athenian; Plato and on the other hand the opposition of Aristotle's idea in the Guardian class, towards the christianization of Aristotle's philosophy from St. Thomas Aquinas from the Middle Ages, to the transitioning of "The Prince" from Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli which accompanied the Renaissance period, to the time of the seventeenth century of Thomas Hobbe's masterpiece of "The Leviathan" and Baron De Montesquieu's work of "The Spirit of the Laws" whose idea is still used to this day of dividing the branches of government, in further, commencement towards the industrial revolution at the end of the eighteenth century for democracy which is at the present, the political system of the Philippines.
Whether the changes which are now taking place in the state gives impact to all of us are as momentous as these great philosophical transitions, it is still too early to say. The likelihood is that we are indeed on the threshold of a new era; economically, politically, and socially. Seldom have people been so aware of being in the midst of great social changes as we are today. Society having evolved to its present complexity, is at last beginning to submit itself to study. While men are learning to understand something about nature, structure and forces of society, its structure is rapidly changing, its forces are rapidly at work. Life today, with all its hardships and uncertainties, is more thrilling than ever before; for man, with his first glimpse at the nature of the states' rules of power, has his first opportunity to set himself into modifying the forces of social change, his first opportunity to assist at the birth of a new social order, his first opportunity to be himself the founder and designer of a new and more humanistic rule of the state.
How can you say that there is a great social change? Would you say that it is a great social change even though people today are engaged in disputes and wars? It is very evident in the headlines in newspapers if you are updated with current events.
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DeleteIt is very superficial to say there isn't a great social change. What makes people now more evolved are there rights to express their opinion and freedom. To say that there is no change or slow improvement is still too early to say for the general public especially for the Philippines. Media itself is surrounded with control and corruption, there is not enough evidence to support only the implications throughout its disputes and wars. Also, a country itself is not only known for its flaws but its evidence of work throughout social and historical times. We must be evident that it is a new era, future developments in the society rely on each man to design and change the ruling of the state as much as they can rely to develop themselves and others as a rational and social thinker.
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