ABSTRACT
The consequences of societal modernization are so diverse and affect so many different facets of human activity that it is difficult to find a more specific term than “social change” to describe them. Whereas consolidation is the main characteristic of political development and growth of economic, “integration” may be seen as the dominant theme in the social sphere. The various units of society—families, kinship groups, communities, ethnic groups, commercial organizations—become increasingly integrated within a single society.
