Social Change and Modernization

Social Change and Modernization

Social change is simply the transformation of the cultural landscape. It is the changing of the way of life. There are features about social that include unplanned events. It also may be controversial, longer lasting, and even happen in a fast pace. There are four types of social movements which are alternative social movement, redemptive social movement, reformative social movement, revolutionary social movement. Some more social movements would be animal rights movement, anti-war movement, anti-globalization movement and civil rights movement. The key features for an alternative social movement would be that it is the less threatening of the four and limited to a smaller population. The features for a redemptive social movement would that they target individuals and seek more radical change. An example of a redemptive social movement would be an organization called MADD, also known as Mothers against Drunk Driving. It is a movement trying to stop people from driving while intoxicated. The fourth movement, which is called the revolutionary social movement, is the most extreme change. An example of this social movement was when Ghandi led to create the Indian Independence movement. Modernization is defined as the change that happened through the gradual way of industrialization. It includes features like expansion of personal choice, a decline in small communities, and an increase of diversity in cultural background. An example might include the expansion of cities in America. More people live in cities as oppose to small towns. Another example would be Historians link modernization to the processes of urbanization and industrialization, as well as to the spread of education. As Kendall (2007) notes “Urbanization accompanied modernization and the rapid process of industrialization. In sociological critical theory, modernization is linked to an overreaching process of rationalization. When modernization increases within a...