Changes in Behavioral Patterns and Acceptance of Cultural Values
Changes in behavioral patterns and acceptance of varied cultural values and ideas are indicative of a beneficial social shift. By doing this, a person through social transformation learns how to turn obstacles into opportunities and how to take advantage of social challenges to positively impact society.
Emotions and Societal Change
According to Thomas, McGarty, and Mavor (2009), a person's emotions have a significant impact on societal change for the better. According to this perspective, the absence of emotions prevents positive social transformation in the areas of turning darkness into light. As a result, emotions are crucial in determining and forming a person's conduct. For instance, positive social change takes advantage of prejudice, social to advantage the socially disadvantaged. Additionally, positive social change fosters pro-social behaviors through delving into social identity as well as group emotions (Thomas, McGarty & Mavor, 2009).
Importance of Interpersonal Interactions
According to Kezar (2014) and Ziol-Guest and McKenna (2014), positive social change requires inseparable social networks that other than being planned should be driven by an individual's emotions. For example, positive behavior change should be embedded among the individuals constituting the community or society experiencing positive social changes through maintaining interpersonal effective interactions. Nevertheless, lasting positive social change or changes do not depend on some predetermined blueprints as well as events but rather appropriated by an individual's decisions that fostered by the patterns of interactions (Kezar, 2014: Biswas-Diener, 2011). Therefore, the social stratification and realignment of the changes resulting from individual aspects of positive change rely on interactions to create network relations that can be accommodated within the social systems.
Establishing Integrative Educational Systems
Concisely, policy makers should consider establishing integrative educational systems that accommodate interdisciplinary lessons obtained from all relevant educational fields (Aguilera, Rupp, Williams, & Ganapathi, 2007). Hence, the social networks should function to the advantage of the target individuals and ensure that the connections made available to the participants accord them necessary information and support to realize the desired aspects of social change (Sidaross, 2013).
