Current social changes and social crises

From the sociological point of view, social change is a new social condition marked by changes in the social structure, interpersonal and social relations, as well as in the system of social values and patterns of the development of culture. In this connection, a question of measuring, planning and control of social changes arises, among others, as a subject of scientific research. Social crisis is a specific form of realization of a certain social change in a situation when the old social structures cannot possibly adapt to the new demands of the social evolution. Social crisis is marked by the lack of coordination, by stagnation and contradictions in different social spheres. Hence, a crises grows deeper with a decrease of the ability of significant elements of the social structure to adapt to the current demands of the given socio-economic evolution.