Social innovations and changes in educational systems are the cornerstones for success of emerging countries. Current developments in Brazil and heterogeneity of society make the country a perfect candidate to investigate these topics. Drawing on historical analysis and content analysis, the author builds a model that recognizes patterns of social change. This model enables to analyze social change through the interaction of radical changes, innovations, social movements, and reforms. This model is applied to two periods in Brazil, where social movements, like the revolution in the 1930s and the military coup in the 1960s, triggered a series of social changes. The findings of this study suggest that social change is a cyclical process where social innovations and educational change are involved. These findings have significant implications for our understanding of current changes in the Brazilian society and provide a key instrument for analyzing social change in other societies.

社会创新和教育制度的变化是新兴国家成功的基石。巴西目前的事态发展和社会的异质性使得该国成为研究这些话题的理想人选。通过历史分析和内容分析，作者建立了一个识别社会变革模式的模型。该模型能够通过激进变革，创新，社会运动和改革之间的相互作用来分析社会变革。这种模式适用于巴西的两个时期，在这个时期，诸如1930年代的革命和1960年代的军事政变之类的社会运动引发了一系列社会变革。这项研究的结果表明，社会变革是一个周期性的过程，其中涉及社会创新和教育变革。