ABSTRACT
T h e social and personal consequences of change are vast, various, and many of them are dimly seen and poorly understood by social scientists. T h e entire matter of sorting out the effects of technology, increase in scale, industrialization, urbanization, modernization, and so on, constitutes an agenda for scholarship that stretches far into the future, and all the while, of course, the change process continues. This problem has indeed been a principal concern of social science over the past century, and interest in it continues to grow as the development of the "new nations" occupies so much of the world's attention.
