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Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where p

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问题     Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
    Within a society, social change is more likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather in values: in what has been learned later in life than what was learned early; in less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites: in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones: in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in a strange elements.
    Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies (一分为二).This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other white counterparts.
The passage mainly discusses ______.
选项 A、two different societies
B、the necessity of social change
C、certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur
D、certain factors that promote social change
答案C
解析 此题为中心思想题。文章第一段和第二段首句说明在什么社会以及在社会的什么方面，social change is more likely to occur。第三段说明循序渐进的social change is easier，然后逐一解释原因。因此可以看出，文章分析易发生社会变化的一些决定因素，所以C是正确答案。
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