Human Societies
Introduction to Macrosociology
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
7th Edition
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-0-07-037631-1 (ISBN)
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Description
This text is written for introductory sociology courses and takes a macrosociological, global approach, offering an introduction that is comparative, cross-cultural and historical. It compares societies over time and across environments, emphasizing the dynamics of social change. The book has a strong ecological-evolutionary perspective. It stresses the relationship between social arrangements and environmental and technological contexts. This edition includes a chapter on the successes and failures of Marxist societies as social experiments, and has increased focus on comparisons between industrial and non-industrial societies.
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Edition
7th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-037631-1 (9780070376311)
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Patrick Nolan | Gerhard Lenski
Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology
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10/1998
8th Edition
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Content
Part 1 Theoretical foundations: the human situation; human societies as sociocultural systems; the evolution of human societies; types of human societies. Part 2 Pre-industrial societies: hunting and gathering societies; horticultural societies; agrarian societies; some evolutionary bypaths and a brief review. Part 3 Industrial societies and industrializing societies: the Industrial Revolution; industrial societies - technologies and economies, ideologies, polities and the mass media, social stratification, population and kinship; revolutionary socialist societies; industrializing societies; retrospect and prospect.