Editing Social change (section)

{{Short description|Any significant alteration in societal order}}
{{Redirect|Social transition|social adjustments as part of an individual's gender transition|Gender transition#Social aspects}}
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[[File:Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050 - Figure 3 - Social tipping elements and associated social tipping interventions with the potential to drive rapid decarbonization in the World–Earth system.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|A set of social changes proposed for [[climate change mitigation]]]]
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'''Social change''' is the alteration of the [[social order]] of a [[society]] which may include changes in [[social institution]]s, [[social behaviour]]s or [[social relations]]. Sustained at a larger scale, it may lead to [[social transformation]] or [[societal transformation]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Donncha |last2=Lightfoot |first2=Geoff |last3=Lilley |first3=Simon |title=Are we living in a time of particularly rapid social change? And how might we know? |journal=[[Technological Forecasting and Social Change]] |date=2021 |volume=169 |pages=120856 |doi=10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120856 |doi-access=free}}</ref>