Documents and Website Content as Data Sources for a Qualitative Study At the core of positive social change is initiating social progress (Green, 2014; Walden University, 2014; Yob & Brewer, n.d.). However, perspectives on positive social change vary thereby creating a phenomenon of different strategies of it (Green, 2014; Walden University, 2014; Yob & Brewer, n.d.). Walden University, for example, believing that positive social change is about involving people, communities, and institutions in activities that bring progress to people’s lives locally and globally leverage educational resources both human and nonhuman such as the scholar of change initiative to promote social progress across the world (Walden University, 2014). Green (2014) on the other hand, believe that negative social change stems from inappropriate measurement methods applied to social progress arguing that the use of GDP indicators to measure social progress was impoverishing and inappropriate as a positive social change initiative. Kezar (2014) although believes in the use of educational resources and platforms to enable social positive social change vis-à-vis social progress suggested a strategy of connecting people socially-social networking. Notwithstanding a common thread I have observed is there is an awakening consensus among diverse and emerging people and communities across the world towards revolutionizing positive social change initiatives, some even utopian in nature, with the aim of generation transforming social progress outcomes (Korten, 2006; Wright, 2010 ). How Reviewed Literature Sources Have Shaped My Experience of Positive Social Change Studying diverse and emerging scholarships regarding social change has brought me varied perspectives regarding the phenomenon. Mentioning a few, I have been able to comprehend social change through the following lenses: revolutionary, missionary, confrontational, and visionary (Korten, 2006; Wright, 2010); diversity, collaborative, shared, knowledgebased, and experience (Walden University, 2014); networking-social (Kezar, 2014); measurement-indicators (Green, 2014); and qualitative research (Walden University, 2014; Saldaña, 2016; Yob & Brewer, n.d.). These perspective are gradually shaping my insight into the growing need to collaborate scholarship and practice (Bartunek, 2008) towards social progress novelty going forward. Supporting Explanation of Positive Social Change with Data from Analytical Memo Clarke (as cited in Saldaña, 2016) describe analytical memos as where we engage in tête-à-tête with ourselves regarding our data. Saldaña (2016) discussing a proposed content of analytic memo highlighted specific categories inherent that guides the crafting of the memo by qualitative researchers. One of the categories involves the reflexivity and writings regarding a researcher’s personal relationship to the participant, and, or, the phenomenon (Saldaña, 2016). Including many, my analytical memo reflects data f.

1. Documents and Website Content as Data Sources for a
Qualitative Study
At the core of positive social change is initiating social progress
(Green, 2014; Walden University, 2014; Yob & Brewer, n.d.).
However, perspectives on positive social change vary thereby
creating a phenomenon of different strategies of it (Green,
2014; Walden University, 2014; Yob & Brewer, n.d.). Walden
University, for example, believing that positive social change is
about involving people, communities, and institutions in
activities that bring progress to people’s lives locally and
globally leverage educational resources both human and
nonhuman such as the scholar of change initiative to promote
social progress across the world (Walden University, 2014).
Green (2014) on the other hand, believe that negative social
change stems from inappropriate measurement methods applied
to social progress arguing that the use of GDP indicators to
measure social progress was impoverishing and inappropriate as
a positive social change initiative. Kezar (2014) although
believes in the use of educational resources and platforms to
enable social positive social change vis-à-vis social progress
suggested a strategy of connecting people socially-social
networking. Notwithstanding a common thread I have observed
is there is an awakening consensus among diverse and emerging
people and communities across the world towards
revolutionizing positive social change initiatives, some even
utopian in nature, with the aim of generation transforming
social progress outcomes (Korten, 2006; Wright, 2010
).
How Reviewed Literature Sources Have Shaped My Experience
of Positive Social Change
Studying diverse and emerging scholarships regarding social
change has brought me varied perspectives regarding the
phenomenon. Mentioning a few, I have been able to comprehend

2. social change through the following lenses: revolutionary,
missionary, confrontational, and visionary (Korten, 2006;
Wright, 2010); diversity, collaborative, shared,
knowledgebased, and experience (Walden University, 2014);
networking-social (Kezar, 2014); measurement-indicators
(Green, 2014); and qualitative research (Walden University,
2014; Saldaña, 2016; Yob & Brewer, n.d.). These perspective
are gradually shaping my insight into the growing need to
collaborate scholarship and practice (Bartunek, 2008) towards
social progress novelty going forward.
Supporting Explanation of Positive Social Change with Data
from Analytical Memo
Clarke (as cited in Saldaña, 2016) describe analytical memos as
where we engage in tête-à-tête with ourselves regarding our
data. Saldaña (2016) discussing a proposed content of analytic
memo highlighted specific categories inherent that guides the
crafting of the memo by qualitative researchers. One of the
categories involves the reflexivity and writings regarding a
researcher’s personal relationship to the participant, and, or, the
phenomenon (Saldaña, 2016).
Including many, my analytical memo reflects data from a video
vis-à-vis transcript of one of the scholars of change called
Jackie Kundert (Kundert, 2012). Kundert’s (2012) phenomenon
of interest vis-à-vis problem of drug overdose increase in
communities or societies, resonates strongly with me in that as a
health worker, I experience on a daily basis the influence and
effects associated with narcotic drugs and drug abuse among
people especially the youth. I have overly witnessed that, being
a “mother of drug overdose child or children” can inspire a
negative or, and positive social change reaction in and among
mothers and families. Overdosing on drugs, can also be a
“community challenge” in that it triggers negative or, and
positive social change issues within the communities.
Conclusion

3. Increasingly, positive social change is becoming a vision shared
by people, institutions, communities, including governments
who believe in the inevitability of real social progress (Korten,
2006; Wright, 2010). More so, it is a collaborative and
revolution that is unconventionally shared among scholarship
and practice, two forces that underlie real, increasing, and
lasting social progress (Korten, 2006; Wright, 2010). Thus,
collaboratively, scholars and practitioners (Bartunek, 2008) can
make societies progressive.
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