We have mentioned above that during recent decades, the Nan-ao Atayal have moved from their original habitat to new settlements. This movement means the change of environment from the mountainous area into the plain and from a relatively isolated place into a spot of more chances to contact with outsiders. Following this change in enviroment and under deliberate influences of Japanese and Chinese cultures, the Atayal tradition has undergone a drastic change, most institution of Nan-ao Atayal are distorted and replaced by new ones. The traditional form of social grouping has been broken down and supernatural beliefs are weakening and over shadowed by Western religion. For example, there are five Christian denominations represented in the village of Nan-ao: The Roman Catholicism, The True Jesus, Presbyterian, Seventh-Day Adventists, and the World Bible Society. The Nan-ao Atayal have substituted the Christian church organizations for their original sacred groups. We found in the Nan-ao village there are sixteen new social groups, which may be called "laboring groups", based mainly on the division of different churches. These new groups are cooperative units of farming, building houses, marriage and funeral ceremonial affairs which formerly functioned through original ritual groups- gaga. This new form of social grouping is not only adopting the original functions into it, but is actually organized according to the structural pattern of the traditional society.

　　With regard to the socialization process, the changes in physical environment and social setting, especially the shift of world view and supernatural beliefs, have had both directly and indirectly modified the child rearing concept and pattern. Parents are uncertain what method should they follow in training their children. The inconsistency in the socialization technique has resulted in anxieties and various crisises among the younger generation. We shall delineate the whole scheme of the changing pattern of the Atayal culture and offer several hypotheses to account for these changes in the next volume.