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For other meanings of development used in and outside social sciences, see development.
Social development is a type of a social process which leads to structural transformations of social systems. When this is beneficial for this society, it is called social progress, if not, social regress. Note that not all changes experianced by societies are development. For example, any city experiences enormous change between 1.00 PM and 1.00 AM, with its population rearrangement between working and accommodation areas and concomitant changes of the patterns of human activities. But this is not a development, but the result of the functioning of the respective social system.
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