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Power3 1Department of Communication and Psychology, Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark  \n2Bjørknes Høyskole, Oslo, Norway 3University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark  \nAbstract  \nSocial change describes the transformations of a society in terms of values systems, social organization, and practices. What may appear a radical idea at one moment in history can become a taken-for-granted norm at another. Woman ’s suffrage, civil rights, and environmental concern are all powerful twentiethcentury examples of this. The same might be said for the normalization of new technologies, such as the Internet, smart phones, and AI. The prototype of dramatic social change is the French revolution, which aimed to create a sharp break with traditional society and socially engineered a new one based on the enlightenment ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Yet its ultimate failure to uphold its values and achieve the strived for society demonstrates some of the inherent limitations to radical social change. Social change often coincides with, and is driven by the idea of, a possible future society different from the  \ncurrent one – in other words, an awareness of the difference between the actual and the possible opens up. This can happen when we are confronted with other societies ’ ways of doing things, a minority that persistently communicates an alternative view of reality, and more specifically social movements’ imaginations of alternative futures and motivation to actualize them. Whether efforts to bring about social change are successful depends on both power and moral vision – if it is effectively communicated and connects up with the public ’s values.  \nKeywords  \nSocial influence · Protest movements · Cultural contact · Arab Spring · Imagination · Moral psychology  \nContact Drives Change  \nOne of the most obvious drivers of social change is the contact of groups, especially those with vastly different ideas, values, practices, and technology. Such contact brings to the fore thepossibility of other modes of believing and acting, as well as material artifacts and technology. The early twentieth-century school of anthropology called diffusionism (which included Rivers, Boas, and Bartlett) emphasized how most social changes were caused by the contact of cultures  \n© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 V. P. Glăveanu (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_143-1](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_143-1)  \nrather than internal developments within them. Ideas, practices, and technologies tended to betaken over by different groups rather than invented anew (see Wagoner 2017) . However, in this process the new tends tobe combined with the old, such that it is uniquely placed and adapted in each society. Furthermore, genuinely new ideas and practices can emerge from the synthesis of existing cultural forms (Bartlett 1923) . This is also visible in new developments in the arts and sciences within the same society (Bartlett 1958) .  \nAs a result of these processes societies that are in regular contact with others tend to change at a faster pace. Icelandic language, for example, changed little over centuries because of its relative isolation from other societies – its modern form is much closer to Old Norse than other Scandinavian languages. At a macrolevel, Jared Diamond (1997) argues that one of the main reasons Columbus sailed to the Americas, and not the reverse, was that the geography of Eurasia provided regular fluid contact between groups, such that innovations in one could easily spread to others. He focuses principally on the diffusion of domesticated plants and animals, technology, and germs, but the principle could just as easily be applied to ideas (he does consider the invention of writing) .  \nThe “Colombian exchange” (of plants, animals, an","cbCaii9bLbtUo1cO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii9bLbtUo1cO","pdf",164572,"English","# Social Change\n## Contact Drives Change","[{\"question\":\"What does social change refer to in the document?\",\"answer\":\"Social change refers to transformations of a society regarding values systems, social organization, and practices. It explains how ideas can shift from radical in one era to taken-for-granted norms in another.\"},{\"question\":\"How does contact between groups drive social change?\",\"answer\":\"When groups with different ideas, values, practices, and technologies interact, other modes of believing and acting become visible. This can lead to diffusion, adaptation, and synthesis of new elements alongside older ones.\"},{\"question\":\"Why can the same contact process lead to different outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"Contact can produce reflection and relativization through exposure and appropriation of new ideas, or it can trigger reflection through conflict and resistance. The resulting social change depends on how groups respond to new practices and beliefs.\"}]","Social Change - Abstract - Contact Drives Change | PDF",1790112797,15]