Law, Justice and Society chapter 10

What is social change? It is a time when a social control has been broken so many times that social control cant control it any more and a the braking of the norm is okay and it is changed that social control does not control it and does not consider it as being broken norm. To relate this definition to our lives right now to me a social change is how open people are with their partners out in public. About ten years ago not a lot of people would be really open in public that they have a boyfriend or a girlfriend but in now times where ever anyone can look they can notice people at least holding hands. Law has a large impact on social change. Law lets change happen very slowly. When law is placed it is made to be concrete and not have to change but since everything is changing all around us laws need to change too. Like we would need more laws now days then we would need when the United States has been found. Social change can be a good thing but at the same time it can be a bad thing. When social change happens some of the norms are broken and when those norms are broken people can get offended on that side its a bad thing. On the good side when social change happens people can come together and new norms and standers can be made. When the new norms are made they will not stand for ever at one point they will change again and the circle of making new norms and standard will start all over again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJvvMGoe7I (this video show some of the people who had a large impact on social change). Social change is happening all of the time and people keep fighting for change into the better direction.