ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the broader and more speculative issues of the scope and direction of social change. Modernization and diffusion are conceptions of the processes of change involving industrialization, the division of labor, the spread of education, and increased political participation; change begins in the core and diffuses to the periphery. Structural dependency implies changes in response to the needs of foreign political economies. The general historical pattern of events and conditions concerning urbanization and change reported in this study appears to have some analytic regularity. The general historical pattern of events and conditions concerning urbanization and change appears to have some analytic regularity. At a set of points in time, change-pattern possibilities include, inter alia, uniform change toward nonethnic perspectives and practices, change by stages toward nonethnic perspectives and practices, an increase in nonethnic perspectives and practices followed by a reassertion of ethnicity, and continuous intensification of ethnic perspectives and practices.
