Social Change
Leadership roles are often wide in scope and not easily definable. As a leader, one is expected to make personal sacrifice for the betterment of the group. The purpose of this essay is to explore the idea of self sacrifice as a main component of all roles that undertake a leadership position. In this analysis I will apply the leadership demonstrated by the volunteer workers as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and the social leader Mohandas Gandhi as how self sacrifice can impact those in need.
CASA volunteers have helped more than 2 million children locate new places to live and additionally providing fresh starts and new beginnings for those most troubled individuals and society. CASA is a nonprofit organization, it runs largely on a volunteer basis. Not receiving monetary compensation for work is a sign of self sacrifice and dedication to a cause greater than individual purpose. It is…...
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Court Appointed Special Advocates Website. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.casaforchildren.org/site/c.mtJSJ7MPIsE/b.5301295/k.BE9A/Home.htm
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And SEE-Change, a movement in Australia, which could be emulated in the U.S., claims it has a goal of "empowering" Australians to make good decisions on a local level since political leaders cannot be counted on to lead. The SEE-Change group was launched by Canberra biologist Stephen Boyden; his book the Biology of Civilization apparently provided the spark for this social change movement. The changes that need to be made, according to Boyden's book, can be accomplished through the development of "life centers."
Those life centers will fulfill three pivotal objectives, the article explains. One, they will bring concerned citizens together so they can converse and "explore the nature and scientific underpinnings of future challenges." Two, the life centers will give the local community a "venue" through which they can decide which social change actions are most appropriate. And three, these centers will, the article asserts, give communities a "new…...
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Douglas, Bob. (2007). A SEE-Change Movement as a Vehicle for Cultural change and Local
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Postel, Sandra. (2007). Safeguarding Freshwater Ecosystems. WorldWatch Institute. Retrieved February 15, 2008, at http://www.worldwatch.org.node.3994.
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Social Change, Leadership, And Advocacy Applied
The objective of this work is to identify at least one professional or societal problem or issue that concerns you and that would benefit from social change, leadership, and advocacy and explain why it is worthy of such efforts. This work will describe a manageable social change, leadership or advocacy goal related to the issue of domestic violence. This work will explain how and why accomplishing the goal would impact the issue.
Porter and Hall (2001) report in the work entitled "Keeping Collaboration Alive in the Criminal Justice esponse to Domestic Violence" that as the criminal justice system adjusted to changes in the law and the new zero tolerance climate, it became apparent that the work of service providers and practitioners in allied fields (law enforcement, the courts, probation, social services, victim services) needed coordinating. As a result, coalitions were formed in many areas around the…...
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Porter, Karen L. And Hall, William H. (2001) Keeping Collaboration Alive in the Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Anaheim, CA August 17-19, 2001. Retrieved from: http://rji.alfred.edu/Publications/RJI_RR_3.pdf
Ambrosia, Zandra D. (2008) Advocating for Comprehensive Assessments in Domestic Violence Cases. Family Court Review. Vol. 46 No. 4 October 2008. Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Retrieved from: RREEVHIEEWNSIVE ASSESSMENTS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENC
Hobart, Margaret (2008) Batterer Accountability: Responding to Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence. Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. August 2008. Retrieved from: http://www.wscadv.org/docs/Batterer_Accountability_Responding_to_child_maltreatment_and_domestic_violence.pdf
Social Change, Leadership, nd dvocacy
Level: Doctoral
Sociology - Human Services
There are three concepts related to the counselling profession and those professions related to human services. These concepts deal with the matters of social change, leadership, and advocacy. Social change is very much to do with addressing the unfairness of living in a society, but is not limited to injustice alone. Leadership is about being the person to facilitate change both in a social as well as professional capacity, whilst advocacy supports and promotes these changes.
s human services professionals, educators and counsellors, it is important to understand these concepts fully and build an awareness of how they are different, but also how they are alike. Leadership is about guiding decision making and creating a supportive environment in which people can discuss social issues in a constructive and managed way[footnoteRef:1]. Discussion should be promoted and given direction so that it remains relevant and…...
mlaAdvocacy has a strong role to play in the ability to counsel or lead. Providing a forum where people can be heard or listened to supports the smooth transition towards social change. Being able to resolve conflict and manage dispute effectively is essential[footnoteRef:3]. Advocacy allows marginalized groups to speak and be heard so that a broader collection of people can be represented. In this way social change and social justice can not only be seen but experienced by all those involved. The true meaning of advocacy is to plead the cause of another individual's plight and to represent them to all those that can influence that individual's (or group's) life[footnoteRef:4]. Advocating for another can facilitate fairer social change in a broader context, because those that are marginalized or exist on the outskirts of society are brought forward and integrated so that any change that occurs in brought about with these people in mind. [3: [4: http://grjsite.com/attachments/article/31/K.%20Santos%20Advocacy%20Supervision.pdf]
Social change may be considered similar to leadership and to advocacy in the sense that it is an advancement on what is the current social situation. Both advocacy and leadership direct this change and support it and so in this way, all three concepts work in harmony. Conversely though they can work against one another if the social change that is needed is not what society is being led towards and what the leader supports. Advocating for those that are in need of change does not necessarily mean that those agencies that can facilitate these changes will listen, and act. Social change may equally be brought about by the people rather than the agencies that lead them in the case of a revolt or uprising.
What these comparisons show us is that social change is not an event that can occur spontaneously without leadership or advocacy, but it can occur aided by only one. Perhaps the most positive, fair, and holistic social change can only be brought about if the views and feelings of all are considered and to do this, both leadership and advocacy must work in tandem.
The world has grown more stratified, but the poor have grown more aware, through the media, of the extent of the divide between the haves and have-nots.
Social change may originate in material changes, like changes in climate, technology, or population numbers, but the subsequent social changes spawn further social changes unplanned by the creators of the material change, like a shift to a more sedentary society, the result of the ubiquity of the Internet at home and work. Societies are all equally affected by change, but not all of society benefits from technological progress. Technology has enriched the lives of Americas who are able to afford computers, but for those families who cannot, the educational divide between children who grow up with computers and those who do not, once considerable, now becomes seismic in terms of the necessary job skills the poor are deprived of, and some children may…...
While science is going to be important, people in the twenty first century will also be less optimistic about the utility of science in dealing with problems of social nature. Developing countries are going to develop along the Japanese model: embracing technological and scientific innovations but remaining traditional in their outlook. This is going to be a complex development, as the flow of information from the developed countries is going to be disproportionally much higher than the flow of information and know-how from the developing countries. As such, westernization of traditional societies is likely to continue, perhaps in an accelerated manner; the primacy of English as an international language is going to continue in the age of facebooks and twitters, and the MTV and Hollywood are going to shake and in some cases destroy traditional cultures in many parts of the world. But at the same time, people receiving the…...
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Macionis, John. Society: the Basics. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2005.
Social change refers to the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time. Social structure is the routine interaction among persons or groups and cultural patterns refer to the shared way of thinking, knowledge, beliefs, etc. When a social change occurs, it affects both social structure and culture.
The first kind is the change in personnel and it denotes the process of new people, with personal histories and experiences, continuously entering and leaving the society. The second kind refers to the changes that occur as parts of the structure related to each other. Then there are also changes in the way people function in the society and the way they relate to each other. You also find changes in the relationship between structures and new social structures emerge.
Social change occurs both at the macro and micro level in any society. We find both short-term changes as well as the…...
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1. Harper, C.L. & Leicht, K.T. (2010). Exploring social change: America and the world. Pearson Education Canada. 6th ed.
2. Packer, M.J. & Tappan, M.B. (2001). Cultural and critical perspectives on human development. State University of New York.
3. Rury, J.L. (2005). Education and social change: Themes in the history of American schooling. Lawrence Erlbaum associates, Inc.
4. Vela, C.A.M. (2001). World systems theory. ESD.83. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/esd.83/www/notebook/WorldSystem.
Social Change
There are a number of theories of social change, referring to the way that a profession, person, or idea can help alter ideas within society -- typically with a view towards the philosophical idea of making this better over time. It may refer to the idea of large cultural change, say from feudalism to capitalism, a social revolution presented in Marxism or Leninism, or even social movements like the Woman's Equal ights movement or Civil ights for all. As such, it may be driven by a number of factors: cultural, religious, economic, scientific, or even technological forces that result in changes in social institutions, relations or behaviors (Harper, 2010).
Social change may also occur from a micro perspective as well. In fact, many of the social sciences are able to help social change evolve simply through a one-step at a time manner; envisioning the grander historical and modern changes of…...
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Elder, G. (1994). Time, Human Agency, and Social Change: Perspectives on the Life
Course. Social Psychology Quarterly. 57 (1):L 4-15.
Harper, C.L. (1993). Exploring Social Change. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
Sampson, E. (1989). The challenge of social change for psychology. American Psychologist. 44 (6): 914-21.
Social Changes
What positive social change lifetime? The negative? Macionis, John J. (2009). Society basics (10th ed.) Upper Saddle iver, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization Environment Chapter 16: Social Change: Modern Postmodern Societies.
What do you see as the most positive social change in your lifetime? The most negative?
The election of Barak Obama to the presidency has become such a 'given,' such a seemingly natural part of our worldview that it is easy to forget its historical significance. The eradication of formal segregation in the United States is an ongoing national project. The struggle for racial equality began before I was born and may continue afterward. However, even during my short lifetime, I believe that more and more people are beginning to question the use of race as a useful way to categorize human beings.
American is becoming an increasingly diverse society. African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Latinos are present as students…...
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Race -- The power of an illusion. (2003). PBS. Retrieved August 17, 2011 at http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-about-01.htm
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Ideas and Ideologies
Throughout the years, sociology concepts have been developed, interpreted and put in rational frame works with concepts that advocate for social ideology. Human perspective thinking is guided by the systems of ideas that provide relevant societal theories with commitment and implications that promote social change (Johnston and Oliver, pg 1). Ideologies are of fundamental importance, especially when scrutinizing social and cultural formations that lead to social change. Ideas that human understanding is coherent with are of moral and ethical, upholding of norms, and behavioral characteristics acceptable to social life. The system of ideas and their internal structures have changed a great deal as compared to ancient times due to the increased account of phenomena that requires ideas to explain purposively.
A historical evolution pertaining ideas and ideologies is democracy. 1950s and 1960s were subsequent years that opposed personal accreditation. According to social psychologists, these years political systems were…...
mlaReferences
Hunt, E.F., and Colander, D.C. (2006). Social Science an Introduction to the Study of Society. New York: Allyn and Bacon Publishers.
Sharma, R.K., Sharma, R. K and Sharma, R. (1997). Social Psychology. New Jersey: Atlantic Publishers & Dist.
Schatz, S and Rexach, J.J. (2002). Conceptual Structure and Social Change: The Ideological Architecture of Democratization. Chicago: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Johnston, H and Oliver, P.E. What a Good Idea! Frames and Ideologies in Social Movement Research. American Sociological Review.
Social Change Resource for TeachersProfessional Development Resource List: Understanding Social Change and Becoming Agents of ChangeWhat is Social Change?Social change refers to the transformation of cultural, social, and political structures, patterns, and behaviors over time. It is a process meant to bring about the betterment of society by addressing issues like inequality, injustice, and more (Yob, 2018). Colleges, universities, and many high schools are now expressing their mission in terms of creating social change or contributing to the common good. This mission implies that educators need to take on a leadership role by preparing students to be agents of this change.Key Competencies for Enacting Social ChangeKnowledge DomainIn the Knowledge Domain, several foundational competencies are essential for understanding and implementing social change. "Scholarship" is one of them: it gives one a sense of the theories and principles that serve as the backbone for social transformation. This is complemented by "Systemic Thinking,"…...
mlaReferences
Arant, R., Hanke, K., Mittelstädt, A., Pennington, R., Umel, A., & Oda?, Ö. (2023). Media Use
and Political Engagement: Cross-Cultural Approaches| The Role of Media Use in Political Mobilization: A Comparison of Free and Restrictive Countries. International Journal of Communication, 17, 21.
Arora, P. G., Sullivan, A. L., & Song, S. Y. (2022). On the imperative for reflexivity in school
Running Head: ALIGNMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1
ALIGNMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE 2
Alignment and Social Change
The researcher must be able to critically evaluate research and be able to logically connect research components. The connection between different research components is referred to as research alignment. The alignment between methods used in data collection and other components to a research can be evaluated by examining these four primary ideas i.e. the strategy, the conceptual framework, procedures and tools used for the research, and what or who the study is focused (Adom, Hussein & Agyem, 2018). Research design embodies the initial project stage and entails thinking logically through the entire research process from where it starts to where it will end (Pavelek, 2013). The alignment between data collection and other research components can verified through careful examination of whether the strategy, conceptual framework, procedures and tools used…...
mlaReferences
Blaxter, L., Hughes, C., & Tight, M. (2006). How to research. Berkshire, England; New York, NY: Open University PressPunch, K. F. (2005). Introduction to social research: Quantitative and qualitative approaches. London: SAGE Publications.Vogt, W. P., Gardner, D. C., & Haeffele, L. M. (2012). When to use what research design. New York: Guilford Press.
How Does Social Change Occur The main purpose of this chapter is to examine the concept of social change and what it means for people, how it is communicated, how it is achieved, how it spreads, and so on. Hickman (2010) here aims to show the social change does not spontaneously manifest itself as a protest like that seen during the 1960s or 1970s. Instead, the author intends to show that social change begins organically, usually at a grassroots level, and grows as more and more people find commonality with the views of the movement. When the ideas have spread to a large population from a small population, social change is demanded and effected, sometimes through the sort of protests that one typically associates with social change. The author pursues this purpose by defining social change, the purpose of social change, the language of social change, concepts in social change (particularly…...
Social Justice
Improving social justice for women has been identified as one of the building blocks of social change. Population control, education, and the eradication of domestic violence are all interlinked. "UNICEF estimates that worldwide, some 117 million school-aged children do not attend school, 62 million of them girls. Attendance rates are lowest in sub-Saharan Africa, where only 57% of girls are in school, and just 15% of these go on to secondary school" (About us, 2011, Women's global education fund). Women's education is not simply a feminist issue. Higher rates of female education are linked to lower birth rates and better health outcomes for children as well as women.
Women who are educated are more empowered to take control over family planning and have more resources to take care of the children they do have. "Educated mothers limit their families," says Dr. Yasmin aashid, a leader in obstetrics and gynecology in…...
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About us. (2011). Women's Global Education Project.
Retrieved August 23, 2011 at http://www.womensglobal.org/About%20Us/about.html
Domestic violence. (2011). American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Retrieved August 23, 2011 at http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp083.cfm
Social Changes
A lot has happened since I joined campus. In addition to reaching a different level of intellectual and physical maturity, I have also had an opportunity to meet new people, make new friends, and engage in numerous other activities. Before joining campus, I had only two regular friends with whom I routinely consulted and hanged out with. Now, I have more than six friends I regard close -- three are in my class while the others are pursuing different specializations.
Unlike was the case a few years ago, prior to joining campus, I now spend a lot of my time with friends. Most of these friends have the same interests as I do and it is for this reason that we routinely engage in similar activities -- just to enjoy ourselves. Some of the activities we have engaged in together, in the recent past, include, but they are not limited…...
mlaReferences
West, R. & Turner, L. (2010). Understanding Interpersonal Communication: Making Choices in Changing Times (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
One of the interests that I have is in helping victims of childhood sexual abuse. I became interested in this area by accident. As a middle-school child, I had a friend express suicidal ideations to me and relayed them to my parent. The friend’s parents got them into a treatment program, but also removed them from our school. Feeling as if I had betrayed their confidence, the friend ended communication with me. It was years later, in an unrelated way, that I learned that there were several warning signs of childhood sexual abuse in their home. When....
This is a difficult question to answer. In the era of COVID-19, when personal interactions with people are limited, especially with people outside of your immediate social group, being an agent of social change is more difficult than it is in other times. That is because social change agents have to be able to influence people. While some of that can be accomplished in a virtual environment, hence the popularity of internet “influencers,” that type of influence is simply not going to be enough to reach some people. People tend to go to places on the internet....
This is a very interesting topic. Near the end of each year, Lux Research posts a list of transformational technologies to watch in the following year, which might be a good place to start if you are looking for ideas about a specific technology. However, those are going to be technologies that are already invented. Inventing a technology that would transform society in a specific country would require an intimate understanding and knowledge of a country’s culture, geography, religion, history, infrastructure, and natural resources; identifying a problem that it has; and combing up with a novel invention....
Without knowing what two scenarios you selected, we cannot help you specifically evaluate the sample size, evaluate the statements for meaningfulness, critically evaluate the statements for statistical significance, or provide an explanation of the implications for social change. We can, however, provide information to you about how you can make those evaluations.
Understanding how statistics work, especially in the context of science and social science research, is very important. That is because you can have studies that seemingly show the same results, but actually contain very different information. One important component of any type of statistic presented is....
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