Organizational and Conceptual Barriers to Social Change.

This article focuses on organizational and conceptual barriers to social change. In various ways, the society seeks to bring theory and practice into focus on human problems of the group, the community, and the nation as well as the increasingly important ones that have no national boundaries. In addition to that the author have attempted to explore the perennially relevant problem of the role of the social scientist in helping to bring about rational social change, with particular reference to the current concerns and changes in our society. Two areas of central concern in psychology that have great social relevance are: conceptions of the nature and evolution of intelligence, and the impact of race and class membership on the life experiences of individuals. Major emphasis in the social sciences has been placed on categorizing types of relationships hypothesized to exist between various psychological characteristics and demographic classifications. Among these psychological characteristics is intelligence, a concept of prime importance.