Social change is an incontestable feature of
cultural reality. It is another thing that its pace
varies from age to age, culture to culture and from
one area of culture to that of another. For a variety
of reasons the pace of social change has been
rather slow in earlier cultures, chief reasons being
the hold of authoritarianism, religion, illiteracy etc.
With the decline of authoritarianism and religion,
with the rise of science, technology and industry,
with the attendant fast means of communication
and travel, the process of social change has been
accelerated. It can be said that social mobility
comes through education.