Even though I believe in change and its power, change cannot be pervasive in every realm. Such as change in approach to race, religion, equality and etc. However, the movie Gandhi made me realize that it is not as utopian as I thought; it can be achieved by faith. The adventure of Gandhi began at train to South Africa, later on continued in India. This adventure transformed him who is a little Indian attorney into Mahatma (Great Soul) and pioneer of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. South Africa where the change had emerged as a beginning consisted of British colonies in 1893. Gandhi became acquainted with racial discrimination and prejudice during his travel to South Africa. He was treated as third class only because of his skin
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Social movement can be considered as persistent or sometimes organized effort by significant number of people to bring about or refuse the change. Here, we see a social movement which is bringing about change and adherents are motivated by personal commitments rather than external rewards and act together with the sense of engaging enterprise collectively. It is apparent to see their self-sacrifice on the behalf of movement. They preferred the tactics of non-violence such as negotiation, direct action, media, strikes, boycotts and also civil disobedience. There are four different type of social movements because they are sometimes multilateral, it might be hard to make certain distinction but when the effects of this social movement are considered, it carries out the features of transformative movement which aims to change all of society, values in the system and create new social order and followed the six strategic steps; investigating, negotiating, educating, demonstrating, resisting and being patient. The one of the most important symbol of movement was salt march which seems a simple act but the illegal one, against to British Salt law. This social movement arose the awareness about pre-existing rights which are fallen by external power and make them fight for
Social movement can be considered as persistent or sometimes organized effort by significant number of people to bring about or refuse the change. Here, we see a social movement which is bringing about change and adherents are motivated by personal commitments rather than external rewards and act together with the sense of engaging enterprise collectively. It is apparent to see their self-sacrifice on the behalf of movement. They preferred the tactics of non-violence such as negotiation, direct action, media, strikes, boycotts and also civil disobedience. There are four different type of social movements because they are sometimes multilateral, it might be hard to make certain distinction but when the effects of this social movement are considered, it carries out the features of transformative movement which aims to change all of society, values in the system and create new social order and followed the six strategic steps; investigating, negotiating, educating, demonstrating, resisting and being patient. The one of the most important symbol of movement was salt march which seems a simple act but the illegal one, against to British Salt law. This social movement arose the awareness about pre-existing rights which are fallen by external power and make them fight for