Social Change in the United States

Abstract

ALL education, broadly speaking, is preparation for living. From this it follows that the specific forms and purposes of education must be related to the kind of world in which the living is to be done. Changes in the social world, therefore, are of direct significance in any discussion of critical issues in education, and it is the purpose of this article to select and analyze five clusters of change in recent years in the United States which seem to be of primary importance. These analyses, together with a preliminary note on the nature and rate of social change, comprise the six sections of this article. Other changes, equally important, are assigned by editorial fiat to other contributors to this volume.