Social change has occurred rapidly on Taiwan over the past decade or two, as the island has transformed itself from an agricultural society into one primarily urban and industrial in character. The result has been a change from unitary to pluralistic values, from closed ways of thinking to open ones, from moral and ethical considerations as a prime determinant of human relations to utilitarian and materialistic interests, from a simple and impoverished way of life to more prosperous and complex lifestyles.
Political, economic, and educational activities are all closely tied to the development and state of society. This means that systems, methods, and practices that were once extremely successful may no longer achieve the same kind of success today. Social transformation entails changes in people's concepts, ways of thinking, value standards, and hierarchies of needs. As a result, today is an era in which political behavior and methods, business management and systems, and educational contents and methods are all ripe for innovation and reform.
Taiwan's rapidly transforming society faces both threats and opportunities in the direction its development may take. Society, in fact, is a dynamic organism, and the speed of its change and activity indicates the degree to which it has advanced as well as the frequency with which problems occur.
People in a changing society may experience restrictions or constraints on their interests by old policies, methods, or laws and may feel that they urgently need to rectify them. If the government, the ruling party, and the business community should respond passively and negatively to the social changes that have occurred, they would seriously harm the government's support in society. Only active, positive, and creative concepts and methods can channel the tide of social change in a constructive direction.
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