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SAGE/Pine Forge Press, Pine Forge Press
Language
English
Pages
165

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Subjects
Social change, Social evolution

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Table of Contents

1. Evolution and early human societies : Physical and cultural evolution: differences and similarities ; Causes of change in early societies ; From collecting, hunting, and fishing to agriculture
Agrarian societies : The invention of the state ; Class status, and force: increasing inequality and making it hereditary ; Nomads, migrants, and other raiders ; Great cultures: the moral basis of agrarian civilizations ; The problem of administration and the cycle of political decay and reconstruction ; The conservatism of village life ; The demographic cycle in agrarian societies ; The potential for rapid innovation: the importance of peripheries ; The limits of analogy: societies are not species, and cultural evolution is not biological
The rise of the West : Europe's ecological advantages ; Religious discordance and political stalemate: the basis for western rationalization ; Science, knowledge, and exploration in China and Western Europe ; The growth of European empires and the transformation of the economy ; Overcoming the agrarian population cycle ; The invention of nationalism and its consequences ; The legitimation of commerce: the ideological basis of the Industrial Revolution
The Modern era : Industrial cycles ; Internal and international social consequences of modernization and industrial cycles ; Economic class and political power in modern societies ; Political ideologies and protests: two centuries of revolutions ; The unending effort to adapt to modernity ; Ecological pressures persist
Toward a theory of social change : Why change occurs ; The new or the old?: The paradox of institutional resistance to change ; Freedom or control?: The dilemma of the modern era.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.

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Thousand Oaks, Calif
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Sociology for a new century series, Sociology for a new century

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303.4
Library of Congress
GN358 .C45 2012, GN358.C45 2012

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xii, 165 p. :
Number of pages
165

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OL25024822M
ISBN 10
1412992567
ISBN 13
9781412992565
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2011002696
OCLC/WorldCat
701242216

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