Sociology | | | Changing Dynamics in Society | | Fred B. D'souza | 1331 F.Y. B.B.A. | |

Changing Dynamics in Society
It is a fact that society is not monotonous but is constantly evolving. However the rate it changes at is usually slow. After asking the three generations that I have at home about their young days, I see a difference in my grandparent’s life, my parent’s life and my own life. I see changes at many areas like social norms, rules at home, accepted ways of thought, communication and behaviour, the role of family and their values, allowances etc. These changes that are slowly being woven into the fabric of society are gradually being absorbed as the new norms, without shaking the core.
If I compare my life to that of my parents at my age, there may be some things that I do which would be totally unacceptable to my grandparents. When we have family dinner time there has been so many instances where my father has told me about his past and how it is so different to my generation. My father shared stories to my brother and me stating that when he used to come late at home, my grandfather used to not open the door for him, so he was left out in the cold until the next morning. My father does not do this to me when I am late; instead he merely asks me the reason for being late and if valid ends the topic. My mother her entire life was not allowed to wear short skirts. It had to be well below the knee. She comments on the girls as we pass by in the car saying that they weren’t allowed to wear shorts and skirts like this when she was small as society would look down upon them. I then tell her that she can wear them now but she merely states the fact that she’s too old for it now. As time passes by society evolves and gets modernizedthrough technological advances, new trends, globalization and many more factors. Well my mother still tells