Social Movements Today

Social change is in the air and more people today are becoming politically active than have in the last forty years.  As our environment begins to feel the effects of a hundred years worth of industrialization and trillions of tons of greenhouse gasses, people are beginning to speak out against the current situation and are demanding change.   The collective action of hundreds of people are being to see true results as individuals, companies, and even nations are being to change the way they think and act.  People have began to think of the effects their actions will have on the environment, so people have began to recycle more, automobile companies have began producing more efficient vehicles, and nations have began placing sanctions and restrictions on practices that are going to have harmful consequences on the environment.   This social movement is one that started small with little backing sixty years ago, but after enough persistence people have begun to listen and the movement has grow to one of worldly proportions and many nations around the world have joined in the effort to  preserve our world in its current state for has many years as possible.   Along with this environmental movement there has been another movement growing in recent years that has been steadily gaining strength in the late 1950s.  A sexual revolution has been sweeping America, with the theme of sexual freedom taking a strong root.  This sexual liberation movement has led to education to children who prior had been deprived of the truth, being showed an abstinence only path.  When I speak of sexual freedom, I not only am speaking of a cultural relaxation on the idea of having sex, but having sex with the partner of whoever’s choosing.  The gay and lesbian community has seen great leaps forward in being accepted, more so than any other time before in America.  While this aspect of the sexual liberation movement is still in the beginning stages, gays and lesbians are being to hold political office passions and are being seen as equals in the eyes of many.  These movements are only a few of many social movements taking place in America and compared to the rest of the world, America is place of stability and stainless.  Other nations are currently in the mist of civil wars, which are the most extreme social movements that can take place.  These nations are the ones who will see the most change of the next ten, twenty, and fifty years.   Their cultural may change in unexpectable amount and might have to resemblance of any former culture.   In this way it is important to understand the social change in a necessary factor to human society as it constantly pushes forward the idea of what is normal and what is acceptable.