ABSTRACT
Social change denotes gradual or rapid change of political institutions, economic systems, technological solutions, cultural orientations, and similar characteristics of societies. The change of belief systems is an instance of the gradual variant that is not necessarily part of all people’s own conscious experience. A recent model case for the rapid variant is the social revolutions associated with the breakdown of the communist rule in Europe in the early 1990s, comprising radical political and economic reforms, including reconfiguring of all major societal institutions.
