THE CONTROL OF SOCIAL CHANGE: A SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIMENT.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the techniques used to secure the stability of race domination and to assess the probable consequences. If not, will the whites subordinate industrial development in the interests of apartheid or modify apartheid in the interests of economic expansion and thus set in motion unpredictable changes in race relations. Or will the whites persist in the policy of apartheid and economic expansion and in this way perhaps provoke a revolutionary challenge to the whole structure of race domination. Governments generally seek to control social change in such a way as to render their own power more secure. The techniques for control vary with the conditions in the society and the political philosophies of the rulers. Governments, in an attempt to further their own interests, may guide and initiate change, or they may emphasize the sanctity of tradition and resist all forms of social change. Either technique may fail in its objectives and set in motion unanticipated changes in the structure of power.