ABSTRACT
To succeed where historians have failed and provide a theory of social change, has long been an overriding ambition of sociologists. Ever since Comte divided the field into social statics and social dynamics, we find a long line of social theorists who advanced schemes purporting to account for the varied phenomena of social change and history. However much a particular theorist may have avoided or neglected social change, each and every one was conscious that no theory of society could claim to be adequate if it failed to explain movement, variation, transformation and change in social life. It is as if the theory of social change appears as the crown and ultimate justification of all social theory.
