The four goals of progressivism are to protect social welfare, promote moral improvement, create economic reform, and foster efficiency.

The four goals of progressivism are to protect social welfare, promote moral improvement, create economic reform, and foster efficiency.

Social Progressivism is a general philosophical thinking. It advocates or favors gradual social, political, and economic reform. The modern emerged to industrialization.

• Populism arose in the late 19th century while progressivism arose in the beginning of the 20th century.

• Populism came from the farmers and the poor sections of the society from down south while progressivism came from middle classes, who were fed up with the corruption of the rich and the appeasement of the poor by the government.

• While progressivism focused on changing the political system itself, populism focused upon reforming the economic system.