ABSTRACT
A sociological analysis of social change requires in the first place a model more precise and less ambitious than the general theories we discussed in the last chapter, which would make possible the formulation of problems and the systematic presentation of results. In their book, Character and Social Structure, Gerth and Mills have outlined such a model, in terms of six major questions which can be asked about social changes: (i) what is it that changes? (ii) how does it change? (iii) what is the direction of change? (iv) what is the rate of change? (v) why did change occur or why was it possible? (vi) what are the principal factors in social change?
