Examples are holistic health, simple living, civil rights, environmental movement, feminism, personal growth. Another means of change is that a new technology is adopted because we now how the technical ability and it confers obvious advantage. Or a new social structure develops because of the evolution of technology and social conditions. The new technology or social structure has many unintended and unforeseen side effects for good and ill. These can promote or impede social transformation.
Examples are TV, the internet, globalization.
What You Can Do Work on waking up from the cultural trance. We tend to see the world through the viewpoint of our society, even those of us who are critical of it. We need to learn to see these conditioned ways of understanding reality and our choices about how to live, so that we can make choices that will better serve the creation of a healthy society. Work on integrating ground and emergent qualities in your life. Don't throw out your intellect as you develop your emotions, intuition, and spiritual life.