The six factors that stimulate social change include the following:
1. Technology
2. Population
3. War and conquest
4. Diffusion
5. Values and beliefs
6. Physical environment.
Social change refers to alterations in the social order of a particular society over a period of time. The alterations are usually brought about by the factors listed above. The social change can be either positive or negative, depending on the results it brings.
Islam spread extensively along the east coast of Africa by foreign traders.
