Subject(s): Economic history -- Economic change -- Social conditions -- Social Indicators -- Voluntarism -- Voluntary action and social change : Voluntary action, voluntary agencies, voluntarism and activism, characteristics of voluntary action, voluntary welfare activity, vision of voluntary action, state support for voluntary action -- Forces of social change : Problems of predictability, sequence of change, unit of change, sources of change -- Types of changes : Individual change, social change, economic change, cultural change, physical change, planned or directed change -- Change process : Attitudinal conditions to change, social system and change, resistance to change, framework for viewing change process, dimensions of change, change cycle -- Voluntary organizations and social change : Agricultural change through voluntary sector, development of animal husbandry and livestock, development of village industries, other economic development programs, education, health and medical services, social services and amenities, general social services, family and child welfare, institutional services, voluntary action and environment, other services under voluntary auspices, reflections of voluntary initiatives -- Measuring social change - Measurement and assessment of change -collection of information, democration of social space, formulation of facts and indicators, preparing a scheme of research design, execution of scheme of research, computation and analysis of data -- Social indicators : Definition of social indicators, types of indicators, index and indicators, need for an indicator, evaluation of indicators