ABSTRACT
This chapter presents four areas of change seem so apparent, so dramatic, and comprehensively significant that they require inclusion and explication. They are the economic productivity revolution, the political participatory revolution, the racial and sexual revolutions, and the ecological crisis. With regard to each of these areas of fundamental change in the social process, ideologists have emerged to comment, to admonish, to demand, and/or to recommend policy. The chapter examines dimensions of revolutionary pressure and provides some examples of ideological response. The productivity revolution has exposed a wide gap between the "is" of residual poverty and the "ought" of comparative affluence. The pressure for participatory involvement contributes significantly to the revolutionary tenor of the age. The "achievement ideology" is, as many are aware, a derivative from the more inclusive capitalist ideology and its presumptions of equal pay for equal work through an equilibrating market mechanism.
