ABSTRACT
Fundamentally, progress presupposes that mankind is one biopsychically, socially, and culturally. Undeniably, some basic differences exist between the social evolutionary and social processual theorists of social change. But these differences must not obstruct the recognition of other similarities and congruities. Undeniably, social change or social dynamics was the major problem in early American sociological theory. It had a significance and concern which were far greater than attached to social structure or to social origins as problems. Based fundamentally on interaction, the social process notion of social change is much less rigid and structured than social evolution. The social units undergoing change are assumed to be comprehensive or macrocosmic in nature. Rates and magnitude are regarded as relatively slow and small-scale. Social processualists tended to be less elitist, though they also accepted the relevance of unusual biophysical-psychic traits. The new tended to be engendered out of the interaction which also included the less favorably endowed.
