ABSTRACT
Much more difficult to understand a case of unchangeableness of any sociocultural system—if such a case had ever occurred. Not only sociocultural phenomena but all empirical phenomena—inorganic, organic, and sociocultural—are subject to change in the course of their empirical existence. Three answers and all three have been used in social science. The first solution of it is the "e%-ternalistic theory of change" Such a theory looks for the reasons of change of any sociocultural system in some "variables" that lie outside of the sociocultural system itself. The second solution of the problem is opposite: it may be styled the immanent theory of sociocultural change. In regard to any sociocultural system, it claims that it changes by virtue of its own forces and properties. Finally, there has been the third—intermediary or integral—answer to the problem. It attempts to view a change of any sociocultural phenomenon as the result of the combined external and internal forces.
