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SOCIAL CHANGE1 Social Change in Communities Terese Sandoval Colorado Technical University Instructor: Elizabeth Donnellan Due Date: October 29, 2023

SOCIAL CHANGE2 Social Change In Communities The American Red Cross employs 90% of its workforce as volunteers in the United States. The community is made up of men and women of all age groups of all different races, cultures, religions, and beliefs. They believe in partnering with their community to develop and foster safer families, neighborhoods, and worksites. They tend to serve a leading public benefit corporation by promoting a system of self-sufficient communities and also responding compassionately when emergencies arise. Communities are able to come together as donors and volunteers at the American Red Cross to help prevent and also help those people who are facing emergency situations like hurricanes and fires. The community is primarily in the emergency healthcare industry, as they focus heavily on putting communities in a position of safety by giving them the tools and support they need to do so. I believe that a successful community is based on diversity because each individual has a lot of different perspectives and points of view in order to make an impactful change in the world. There are three major types of social change within a community and they are spontaneous change, planned social change, and unplanned social change. Spontaneous change is unplanned, natural occurring change. According to Moritsugu et al. (2019), “planned social change is an intentional or deliberate intervention to change a situation—or, for the present discussion, a part of or a whole community” (p. 126). Unplanned change is continuous social change that must be done through unexpected obstacles to complete the overall change. In the next few paragraphs, I will go more into detail on these three major types of social change. A spontaneous change is an unplanned change that may be positive or negative. A natural disaster such as a tornado or a flood is an example of a negative change because when disasters

SOCIAL CHANGE3 occur, it could cause people to lose their homes and those people have to make changes in order to adjust to their new lives after the disaster. In the event of a natural disaster, you will most likely see volunteers from the American Red Cross helping those affected by the disaster. Spontaneous change can also be positive, such as when a community discovers a natural resource that it can benefit from, like how people are able to donate blood to the American Red Cross to help those in need of a blood transfusion. I do believe that some communities can be negatively affected by spontaneous change, depending on the area or places they live in that have a higher chance of natural disasters. A planned social change is the result of an intervention by an individual or organization that seeks to induce change in the nature of human communities. Planned social change is often a response to an identified problem, such as health risks, environmental crises, recovery from a natural disaster and many more. An issue about planned social change is who is making the plans and how the community in that general population will receive them. An example of planned social change would be people that are elected and also election officials to address leadership in the communities. Usually, the government official would call for an executive order in the event of a crisis in order to alleviate or recover from an identified problem. Unplanned change is when, in order to find a resolution to reach the end goal of a situation, multiple unexpected occurrences have to happen. Unplanned change is similar to spontaneous change because it’s unexpected, but unplanned change means that “the ball has to be brought from the beginning of the change to the end and unplanned changes will occur throughout this process” (Types of Social Change, n.d.). Due to unforeseen circumstances happening all the time, it is very common for unplanned change to be a part of any community. Problems can arise at any given time but within the American Red Cross, it is known that the

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SOCIAL CHANGE4 only way is to be prepared for any situation. By doing this, it makes it a lot easier to handle issues as they arise, especially if they are unplanned. After thinking long and hard about which social change best fits the American Red Cross organization, I came to the resolution that it has to be all three of the social changes. The reason I chose these two is because they are very similar and the American Red Cross is usually responding to changes that happen unexpectedly. I also learned that they do help people recover from natural disasters, like emotional recovery, restoring people's financial well being and many more. Some of the other resources they also provide include checking people's home structure and utility services if they had to evacuate due to unforeseen circumstances. The American Red Cross also has different courses people can take called Be Red Cross Ready because disasters can happen unexpectedly anywhere. These courses teach people different ways to be prepared and stay safe during a disaster. The reason I stated that the American Red Cross is all three types of social change is because the more I understand the different types of social change, the more I can relate a lot to what the American Red Cross does for the community during each social change. While explaining what each social change is above, I gave an example of what the American Red Cross could relate to in that given social change. I know that one of the three social changes may relate more than the other's of the organization I chose.

SOCIAL CHANGE5 References Moritsugu, J., Vera, E., Wong, F. Y., & Duffy, K. G. (2019). Community Psychology (6th ed.). Taylor & Francis. https://coloradotech.vitalsource.com/books/9780429664472 n.d. (2023). Types of social change . Asset Page Types of Social Change. https://class.ctuonline.edu/_layouts/MUSEViewer/Asset.aspx? MID=20422059&aid=20422067

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