... book, Social Transformations of the Twentieth Century he writes, "When the twentieth century closed, the challenges and problems of the time were social, dealing with questions of work, production, social classing and social rights.2" He goes on to voice that in present day, our society is more afflicted by the results of these social phenomena than by the methods at which we reach the results. In a sense I am forced to agree with Touraine's point of view because society seems to put more concern on the status and accountability of our products than the people who ensure that these products see the markets on time and in appropriate fashion ie. quality, safety, affordability. Somewhere between these two beliefs is a common ground on the term revolution, which is not easily defined and even less interpretable. What properly distinguishes the ideas of a revolution or a mutation is at ...

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