The power of social relationships and connected communities is incredible.  Charles Duhigg’s From Civil Rights to Megachurches part one and two was worthwhile read.  Reading more in depth of the impact that Rosa Parks had on social change was truly eye opening and had some very insightful points. I really loved this idea that Duhigg explains, “Strong Ties, or close relationships, combined with weak ties, or distant connections, have the power to mobilize large groups toward a singular goal”(85). Before reading the article, I was confused how weak ties could be beneficial to a cause, but it actually has a massive impact. Weak ties go hand-in-hand with peer pressure, but combining that with a positive social cause, can have very influential results. A person with few connections seeing a large groups of strongly tied people will be more apt to follow suit, to avoid further social outcast. Now obviously this can be taken a negative way, but it’s hard to argue against the credibility of the claim. Peer pressure is something everyone experiences and most people know it’s affects. I found it very interesting to see it applied to the civil rights movement and how big of a role it played in it. I had no idea there was an entire psychological factor to the civil rights movement this basic, that it really came down to social connections and friendship combined with peer pressure and conformity. Strong and weak ties have a huge unknown affect on everybody’s social and life decisions that I don’t think a lot of people are aware of. Weak ties are I feel almost stronger that strong ties, because they have the potential to create more change on a broader scale.