DEFINATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE

* change in social structure: the nature, the social institutions, the social behaviour or the social relations of a society, community of people, and so on.

* When behaviour pattern changes, in large numbers and is visible and sustained it results in a social change. Once there is a deviance from culturally inherited values, it may result in a rebellion against the established system, causing a change in the social order.

* acts of advocacy for the cause of changing society in a normative way (subjective).

— the use of physical, economic, or — the use of physical or economic

Nonviolent Social Change appeals to conscience, emotional counseling, or withdrawalof one’s consent and support to convince or coerce opponents to change their behavior, while supporting and protecting them personally. Often unviolent and nonviolent social change is distinguished by the “tone” of the activity: in nonviolent change, activists struggle with their opponents while maintaining an attitude of respect towards them. Nonviolent activists attempt to love their opponents as they attempt to change them. Furthermore, nonviolent activists try to remain humbly open to the possibility that they are the ones who must change. In contrast, unviolent activists often maintain an attitude of righteousness towards their opponents whom they see as evil or unworthy. They often attempt to blame and demean their opponents as part of their efforts to win. Nonviolent activists also usually attempt to develop alternatives

that can better satisfy people’s real needs, while unviolent and violent activists generally focus only on abolishing existing institutions or customs. Violent and unviolent social change is often approvingly described as “militant.” Generally, social change activity is termed “more militant” the more strongly it relies on threat and coercion

or the more disruptive it is to the normal order.