Social Change
The Long-term View From Sociology And Anthropology
1st Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-0-8133-2693-1 (ISBN)
Description
Examining thousands of years of social change, this work focuses not on the intellectual history of theories of change, but on how and why societies change. It includes sufficient case materials to make it suitable as a secondary text for courses in world history as well as a text in sociology and anthropology. The concluding chapter considers future possibilities, stressing the lessons from past changes for understanding contemporary issues and shaping future possibilities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-2693-1 (9780813326931)
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Content
Part 1 The fundamental problem of social change. Part 2 What happened? - the evolution of human societies: from foragers to farmers; civilization ho?!?; the rise of the West or the fall of the East?; industrialization of the world; modernity ho?!? Part 3 Change without evolution?; revolutions and rebellions; social movements; contemporary tribes; a trilogue on social change. Part 4 Conclusions, questions, speculations: theoretical reprise; whither the future?