Causes Of Resistance To Social Change

A critical approach to institutional contexts and social structures understands that institutional contexts always overlap with social structures, thus crucial in understanding the beginning of resistance and social change. We can’t look at one thing without the other. Everyone keeps on saying that women have come a long way, but in fact there are still many regrets and inequalities lingering. When women are compared to men, women are always seen as more inferior human beings. Men have their advantages and women have their disadvantages. Privilege is something undeserving. It benefits a certain group of people the moment they are born. White privilege is somewhat similar to male privilege because both groups like to deny the fact that they …show more content…
In return, the ones who are resisting are seemingly powerless and uncultured. Social change can look very different on a communication stage and on an emotional stage. It makes us think about whom we usually communicate with and who we share emotions with. Who is an insider and who is an outsider. Who do we find more important in our lives and who are merely strangers. Social change is harder to imagine than resistance. Social change will ask for social consequences and these significant alterations in people’s lives won’t take place immediately. Resistance can build up to social change, but social change can take a while for it to be effective. The beginning of resistance and social change begins individually with people’s inner self. If you belong to the majority group, you are first required to acknowledge and understand the privilege you have. A majority can’t just charge in to push for someone else’s justice without understanding the faultiness in the hierarchal system of …show more content…
And authority is normally associated with white people. White males usually have the upper hand in these unspoken rules or unwritten rules of society. Normative power is neither good nor bad. It also refers to the micromanagement of life through the distribution of the norm. The norm which some people manipulate to have control of does its duty of regulating and controlling individuals. It really questions the way how we feel about certain things but we don’t let it show because this is a groupthink. An individual can’t wreck a groupthink because he or she will be seen as a deviant. The individuals that follow the norms make up the population which continues to project its ideas across people’s minds that something is better than the other and some things aren’t meant to happen. In institutions like schools, white people cannot see themselves as oppressors. White students were taught to think of “their lives as a morally neutral, normative, and average, also ideal”. The white students will think that they are representing the ideals of society’s norms. When white people work to help others, they are giving the “others” to be more like them. This way of thinking can be seen as a similar concept to a “white man’s burden” where westerners are culturing people of color into civilized people like them. A white person believes that they are responsible for the “others” and that is used to justify their position in life. How we like to