Changing society

For any form of social development to be effective, a basic infrastructure is a primary requirement. This must include housing, health care, social services, work opportunities and training programmes.

1. What the world needs today most are agents of social change, but students aim at becoming good professionals. Can a person be a good professional and at the same time an agent of social change? Is it a contradiction?

2. A policy to promote social development should have at least seven elements, four overarching objectives and three essential means. In addition, participation is the glue that holds all this together. The four overarching objectives would be to: (a) Maintain social cohesion; (b) Foster equity; (c) Reach the ultra poor; and (d) Strengthen cultural identity. The three essential means are to: (i) Promote social mobility; (ii) Support institutional development; and (iii) Encourage participatory social policy research.

1. Strengthening socio-economic development
2. Reducing time to take action
3. Promoting development
4. Changing direction

1. Offering tools for change
2. Improving universal social development
3. Harnessing social power for development
4. Generating political change
5. Forming world-wide social change coalitions
6. Evaluating social development
7. Creating alternative society
8. Conducting social invention workshops
9. Changing society through theatre
10. Changing behaviour with incentives
11. Arranging global forum on social development

1. Transforming society
2. Relieving social change powerlessness
3. Providing sufficient social progress
4. Guaranteeing citizens' rights
5. Expanding models of social change
6. Accepting proposals for social change

1. Providing sufficient understanding of social and economic contexts in development programmes
2. Playing role in social development
3. Employing fundamental skills for social development
4. Constructing theoretical models of social development
5. Anticipating possible development needs

1. Preserving social inequality
2. Delaying implementation of social change

1. Neglecting social development

1. Social underdevelopment
2. Delays in implementation of social change
3. Constraint of time on individual and social development

1. Demographic and social change
2. International Federation of Social Workers
3. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues: PRINCIPLES FOR PROMOTING SOCIAL CHANGE
4. Animating Democracy
5. ZMagazine
6. Promoting Social Change Through the Arts – A Multi-Regional Project
7. 7 Award-Winning Organizations Driving Social Change Throughout The World
8. World Economic Forum: 8 ways Davos inspired social change this year