Social Change

[¿Que?]

Social change, social revolution, social transformation etc. Do you generally agree and use these terms or no. That is, is the point to change society or to change some aspect of society, as per your philosophy.

[Zav]

Social change, social revolution, social transformation etc. Do you generally agree and use these terms or no. That is, is the point to change society or to change some aspect of society, as per your philosophy.
I most often use 'social revolution'. The point is to change society, because it is rotten to the core and the complete opposite of what we Leftists find to be the logical ideal. This requires nothing less than revolution.

[hatzel]

Social transformation sounds quite good. If society is going to replace the state, it seems fair to say that the abolition of the state is the radical restructuring / transformation of society, so that it may fill the gap that the state currently fills...makes sense to me...kind of...

[a rebel]

changing society for the better sounds great, and should be done. But how do you propose to do it?

[Meridian]

Social change, social revolution, social transformation etc. Do you generally agree and use these terms or no. That is, is the point to change society or to change some aspect of society, as per your philosophy.
Aren't these in any case political goals, or political terms, and not philosophy?

[¿Que?]

Aren't these in any case political goals, or political terms, and not philosophy?
Ok, well maybe philosophy is not the best place for this thread. My point, though, was how people felt about these terms today. I know there is a history behind them, such as for example pre-USSR German communists used the word social democracy. I wanted to know if people thought they were still useful terms, and how they defined them. What does it make a revolution to tack on the word "social" at the beginning, for example.

[Hit The North]

Social change, social revolution, social transformation etc. Do you generally agree and use these terms or no. That is, is the point to change society or to change some aspect of society, as per your philosophy.

This is how I see it:

'Social change' refers to any change in society, anything from changes in the relations between and within social groups and social roles, to larger shifts within social processes (cultural, economic and political). These can be planned or, and more usually, the unintended consequences of the complexity of human interactions. Social change happens all the time around us.

'Social revolution' refers to a rapid and fundamental change in a society, and one through which antagonistic group relations are consciously fought out. Social revolutions are rare events, but exert a strong 'gravitational' effect on history.

'Social transformation' doesn't have any particular conceptual identity or usage, as far as I know. It could refer to either of the above.