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CHAPTER FIVE

SOCIAL PROCESSES

Learning Objectives

Having completed this chapter, the students will be able
to:

• Understand the meaning of social processes and
  their analogy with biological processes;


• Describe the modes of social processes, such as
  competition, conflict, cooperation, assimilation
  and accommodation;


• Understand the concept of social stratification, its
  roots, forms and consequences.


• Define the concept of social mobility, and
  differentiate between the various forms of
  mobility;


• Describe the concept of social change, its
  causes, characteristics, and the social changes
  that are taking place in the contemporary
  Ethiopian society.