Social Change Theory

Organization like Big Brother Big Sisters or The Bowery Leadership Academy are attempting to enact changes by helping at risk or minority youth and students but in different ways. Before they can be successful there has to be a way of making sure there is a set of steps for them to follow in order to reach this goal. Social change theories are what give social changes the structure or it’s backbone allowing it to make some actual progress to achieve their goals. There has to be a sense of communication between those who are helping and those who are going to be helped. Communication is the active engagement with the participants, helpers, providers and the receivers of any or all the products or effects that the organization or agent of …show more content…
“While recruits may gain a sense of the potential power of a movement in consciousness-raising sessions, the real test for the movement comes at the actual protest site where all involved see how many are willing to take the risk associated with challenging authority.”(Hirsh, 151). Giving people the power to decide and the course of action gives people the incentive to want to continue being a part of the movement or the organization, despite the belief that the best way to organize people is to have a strong set of ideals or rule set forth letting people decide gives the movement more strength. People enjoy having the option of choosing the outcomes and the activities that they are going to participate in it gives them some power adding to motivation to there …show more content…
Relationship building is the active task of creating a deep rooted connection with people more than just the relationship of the provider and the receiver. “ Organising is grounded in civic relationships that create the mutual commitments needed to sustain collaboration.”(Ganz). Creating a relationship allows for there to not only be assitance but a mutual commitment that come from participating because the other party knows that the organization is giving them something and not just taking. “Building relationships goes beyond delivering a message, extracting a contribution or soliciting a vote. It is a way of creating the “social capital” on which community organisation rests.”(Ganz, New Statesman). Having more than a give and take relationship adds more to the movements outcome because they will have an actual reason and motivation to make the actual effort to go out and help or sign up for a movment. Instead of having the people only come out and support the movement or organization then go home or their residence without anything to show for what they have done, give and take, give the people something that will keep them coming back, for example, giving them merchandise or a membership to subservient parts of the organization to incite motivation. “In South Carolina he had virtually no institutional support. Between August and