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“The medium, or process, of our time -- electric technology -- is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and reevaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing -- us, our family, our education, our neighborhood, our job, our government, our relation to ‘the others’ and they are changing dramatically.”(Marshall McLuhan, quoted in Road Warriors by Daniel Burnstein and David Kline, New York: Dutton, 1995)

“Without the belief in the possibility of progress, whatever reason’s ability to understand the nature of society, social theory would not be able to fulfill any positive role in improving upon man’s destiny” (Durkheim Badham). Badham was emphasizing on what the society progress and change to improve man’s fate. Social change, thus, is the core foundation of sociology that inevitable to occur. Functio...