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Social change /

This introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the human condition, balancing theory with observation and incorporating comparative global examples throughout. The third edition of Social Change has been thoroughly updated and revised, inc...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weinstein, Jay A.
Formato: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicado em: New Delhi: Rawat Publications, c2011.
Edição:3rd ed.
Assuntos:
Sumário:
  • The social scientific perspective
  • Social and cultural evolution
  • Population growth and demographic transition
  • The heritage and dynamics of culture
  • Social structures, systems, and processes
  • Social movements : concepts and principles
  • Movements and revolutions in context
  • The process of technological innovation
  • From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft : the urbanization of the human population
  • A world divided
  • The market, capitalism, and socialism
  • The paradoxes of development
  • Democratic planning and applied sociology
  • The political economy of globalization.