The reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in America focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison’s purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the …

“Economic reform” usually refers to deregulation, or at times to reduction in the size of government, to remove distortions caused by regulations or the presence of government, rather than new or increased regulations or government programs to reduce distortions caused by market failure.

Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing change in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency. Intimately related are law reform bodies or law commissions, which are organizations set up to facilitate law reform.

Economic reform as microeconomic reform is well understood. It dominated government thinking in the 1980s and 90s – a floating dollar, lower tariffs, de-regulation, tax cuts and tax reform, corporatisation and privatisation, labour market reform and the contracting out of government services.

Policy changes were proposed with regard to technology up-gradation, industrial licensing, removal of restrictions on the private sector, foreign investments, and foreign trade. The essential features of the economic reforms are – Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation, commonly known as LPG.

China’s experience supports the assertion that globalization greatly increases wealth for poor countries. Throughout the reform period, the government reduced tariffs and other trade barriers, with the overall tariff rate falling from 56% to 15%.

The following are the reasons for economic reforms:

• (i) Rise in Prices:
• (ii) Rise in Fiscal Deficit:
• (iii) Increase in Adverse Balance of Payments:
• (iv) Iraq War:
• (v) Dismal Performance of PSU’s (Public Sector Undertakings):
• (vi) Fall in Foreign Exchange Reserves:

Reform is defined as to correct someone or something or cause someone or something to be better. An example of reform is sending a troubled teenager to juvenile hall for a month and having the teenager return better behaved. Health care reform.

(rɪfɔːʳməʳ ) Word forms: plural reformers. countable noun. A reformer is someone who tries to change and improve something such as a law or a social system.

(Entry 1 of 4) transitive verb. 1a : to put or change into an improved form or condition. b : to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses.

As verbs the difference between reform and change is that reform is to put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct while change is to become something different.

A Social Reform refers to any attempt that seeks to correct any injustices in a society. Social Reform is a kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society, rather than rapid or fundamental changes. …

For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. The labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.

Social change is way human interactions and relationships transform cultural and social institutions over time, having a profound impact of society. Sociologists define social change as changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institutions.

Examples of social change

• The Reformation.
• The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
• The Civil Rights movement.
• The feminist movement.
• The LGBTQ+ rights movement.
• The green movement.

Some of the most important factors of social change are as under:

• Physical Environment:
• Demographic (biological) Factor:
• Cultural Factor:
• Ideational Factor:
• Economic Factor:
• Political Factor:

What are six factors that stimulate social change?

• Technology.
• Population.
• War and conquest.
• Diffusion.
• Values and beliefs.
• Physical environment.

War, crime, poverty, global warming, healthcare, effects of media, and more. Explore some of the biggest challenges facing our world today and what led to these social problems.