Social transformation in this context requires a shift in collective consciousness of a society — local, state, national or global — so that reality is refined by consensus.
Cities which have reinvented themselves serve of examples of conscious transformations of a social type resulting in reinvigorated and revitalized populations, economic prosperity and restored civic pride.
Social transformations are such when they sustain over time where attitudes and values are held in a completely new context (or paradigm) based upon different assumptions and beliefs.
This can include cultural capital, a term created by Pierre Bourdieu, and can be in three states: In a study by Mark Granfield of working-class law students aiming to succeed at an Ivy-League law school, Granfield noted the importance of making alterations in the students' "interpersonal relations" including everyday changes such as patterns in their clothing and speech.
An individual engages in associational embracement when they make a verbal acceptance of their set relationships with others in order to confirm and assume their social identity.
This is a crucial role in individual identity (trans)formation because it is the verbal recognition and acceptance into the group of which they aspire to be members.
A key example would a young student deciding where to go to college, because it is a decision that is often influenced by a person's individual relationships.