Question.4277 - Discussion 1: The intricacy of social change. 50 points Note: You will be able to see the responses on your classmates only after you post your own. You must start with the major post; posting something inesential firt (that will allow your to see other students' responces) will be considered cheating and may result in annuling the grade for this discussion. ObjectivesConceptualize the variety of reasons for people to get involved into actions leading to a social change.Track the logic in which a social change is occurring.Juxtapose the personal motives of the people involved, and the underlying social issues surfacing in actions leading to a social change.Practice a well-weighted, considerate approach to assessing and articulating people’s motives and life circumstances.PromptsFor this discussion, you need to make one major post (due Thursday), and at least one response (due Saturday). Feel free to make as many responses as you will, but only one (the first response you publish) will be graded. Length of your major post must be within the range of 700 – 1500 words, and your response between 250 and 500 words.Major postChoose one of the case studies we are reviewing this week. Use the Internet search to gather more information, such as the geographic and socio-cultural characteristics of the area, a social movement this case might be associated with, the demographic or cultural characteristics of the participants and impacted groups (if generalizations seem appropriate), the specific struggles they encounter, and whatever else you find relevant.Step 1. Based on the materials posted on Bb and those you have found, how would you identify personal motives that made the individuals involved in an action toward the social change at the first place.Step 2. Make a brief overview of the mentioned above (environmental, geographic, demographic, social, cultural, economic) and other relevant characteristics of the groups impacted by or/and involved into an action toward the social change. Speculate on how those external circumstances had transformed into the motivation to respond (joining, supporting, or resisting) to the initiative leading toward the social change.Step 3. Sort out the factors you identified into groups. For instance, you can use such categories as “objective” (economic, political, geographic, demographic, etc.) and “subjective” (particular life circumstances, motivation, experience, etc.) factors. Or you can sort the factors by the societal domains they belong to (economic, political, cultural) and breaking them, if needed, into more specific categories. For culture domain, for instance, those more specific categories could be religion, life styles, traditions, taboos, ritualistic behaviors, and so on; for socioeconomic domain, those could be economic participation, social class and related categories (class solidarity, class struggle), un- or underemployment, distribution, consumption patterns, the division of labor, and so on; for political, those could be political representation, power, ideology, hegemony, ideas, and so on. You can utilize any other or even make up your own system to classify the factors of the involvement you found in the case.Track the logic of those factors: what comes first, what is next, how those factors intertwine or change their order on the way. You might find that chronological order and logical order do not necessarily coincide. For instance, something that chronologically precedes a certain situation or action does not necessarily cause it. Observing and articulating this kind of details will add depth to your analysis.Step 4. Reflect on your findings. Conclude this step with mentioning at least one thing you had never noticed before when thinking about the social change or human behavior overall, and you discovered it while working on this discussion.At the end of your post, list the sources you utilized in the reference list.Reply to a classmateRespond to a classmate, preferably who chose a case different from yours.Read their major post and assess it using the prompts (you might also want to take a look at the grading criteria). What are your thoughts on the case the classmate chose for analysis? What could you add to contribute to their findings?

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