Engagement with Social Actors - The High Point of Social Research

Abstract

Society is rarely t h e same between any two points of time, even though change is not always perceptible if w e judge between two closely contiguous movements of time. And also, this change has been variously perceived - a la Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Herbert Spencer, and several others. But talking in terms of the processes of change what has personally struck me is the sequencing of change proposed by a celebrated anthropologist Raymond Firth.