Social Changes In Society

Introduction
Changes in the development process resulted in social changes in society. Society is regarded as a key agent in determining the best way of pattern formation of a national government. This causes them to have the right to voice out their opinions if the government system, run by people who have a superior position is not carried out properly. The process of modernization that took place in an area also impacted on the society in which they have been suppressed. When talking about the modernization process, elements such as capitalism was inevitable. As we all know, the capitalists are often more concerned about gaining profits. There are many ideas and insights from the earlier philosophers in defining civil society.

But the trouble is that associational life contains all different kinds of values and beliefs which have been learned and nurture in families, schools, workplace as well as in an association. Because of that, associations are difficult to maintain the level of political agreement which are required in order to obtain broad-based social reforms (Edwards, 2014). If we look back from the definition of the Gesellschaft (civil society) from Tonnies, civil society lives in the kind of individualistic world where they have all sorts of values, beliefs and occupations in differentiating them from the rural community. Compared to the rural community, even though civil society is more educated and living a modern life, their life is not arranged by them, but according to the state and capitalists desire suppressing the powerless people. Today, civil society is not much on economic freedom that attract theorists interest but rather on the power and the role of associational freedom concerning the state that, for the reasons we want to understand. The kind of associations that we want to concerntrate on is the role of NGOs or social movement that reflect different

For example, controlling the level of education of the public by restricting the distribution of reading materials that has the elements that can bring down the government. In other words, the lack of knowledge and current issues abot the government and economy can lead the people to assume that any actions taken by the government are all good and benefit the people back. Meanwhile, reading material which are provided might also distortion of facts for which it is designed solely to get the attention of the public to side with the government. Here we can see that the importance of civil society to create awareness among the public, especially those who are less educated in order to know the real thing, especially rights owned by them to speak out. They can spread the news through the media so that all people will know the evil doing of the government and the capitalist.
2.1.2 Civil society as the good society (the kind of society these associations are supposed to