What is social change?  Wikipedia defines social change “Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. Social change may include changes in nature, social institutions, social behaviours, or social relations.”

Is that what social change is? Everyone might have a different change but my definition of social change is not when laws are passed to change the actions of the previous government. its not when people go for a march and the news shows them getting beat and sprayed high pressure hoses.

Social change is when people change for the better, it is when gay people can come out and say they love another sex then what is socially accepted and not be treated differently by that. Social change is when you can get married to whoever you want and wherever you want.

Changing social problems isn’t just having someone writing a piece of legislation and hoping people start enacting it. You have to have people on the ground and they have to believe in the change that’s going on. The civil rights movement was successful in its own right but because they saw that the civil rights bill was passed they took it as a sign of success. 

It takes a lot for a movement to be successful and for social change to be successful it takes a lot more.