No. Social change is generally the result of a dedicated and well-organized minority WITH THE BACKING AND/OR TOLERANCE OF LARGE OTHER SECTIONS OF THE POPULATION imposing their values on society as a whole. Those values themselves are expressed in terms acceptable to the society as a whole.
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> As a general rule, social change is the result of a
> dedicated and well-organized minority imposing their values
> on society as a whole (e.g., the American
> Revolution). The sooner we discard the myth
> that social arrangements are the democratic result of the
> consent of the majority, the better.
> Miles
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