Social Impact
or
Cultural Impact
Definition in general
Social Impact
In essence, the definition of social impact means any significant or positive changes that solve or at least address social injustice and challenges
Cultural Impact
refers to the consequences to human populations of any public or private policies and actions that significantly change their norms, values, beliefs, practices, institutions as well as the way they live, work, socialize and organize themselves as part of their cultural life
So… what?
Understanding the factors
Social and Cultural factors are deeply related. There is a clear difference between the two sets but we cannot distinguish as to which set of factors have a greater impact, and which set affects the societal phenomenon least and sometimes they are interchangeable. we should not be confused as the key difference between the two is being that the social factors, while change the lives of individuals, they also bring structural changes to the society. On the other hand, cultural factors are not something that are imposed on the individual in most cases, but something that the individual has internalized over the years.
Social factors refer to the range of elements that have their roots in the society. They are family, education, political, religious, and economic Institution
Cultural factors or elements have their roots in the culture of particular society. It encompasses the system of values, attitudes, beliefs, norms, mores, and taboos in society
An example of impact lead by the two factors
Social Impact
Gender equality at the workplace. It changes the way that company employs female workers and their salary and promotion have been treated fairly as male employees
Cultural Impact
More women are becoming entrepreneurs, especially in the tech sector. It did not stress on equality but a culture was formed by internal changes within these women over the years of social factor improvement
We focus on Cultural Impact
The above example might not be able to explain clearly as it sees fit, but through our experience, we discover that cultural impact is more direct and easier to measure among a particular group than the social impact on the entire society. We believe by breaking down the social issue elements and pinning them to a primary cause, then building solutions and forming new culture to progressively change it from a bottom-up fashion is more practical for us and also our clients. In the meantime, we collaborate with others to systemically address the roots of social issues and collectively to build systemic changes to the existing environmental and social ecosystem gradually. We believe by creating cultural impact will significantly improve social issues when the awareness and involved parties are reaching a scale. And that’s is the very reason for us to start from 0 and create that 1 primary impact, which is culture, then all of us could work collectively to advance from 1 to N for social impact.