| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 165 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sociology for a new century series
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Sociology for a new century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
An exploration of how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, despite their great success, have created a new set of recurring and unsolved problems which will serve as a major impetus for further social change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social change.
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Social change. |
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Social evolution.
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Social evolution. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chirot, Daniel. How societies change. Second edition 9781412992565 (DLC) 2011002696 (OCoLC)701242216 |
| ISBN |
9781452224466 (electronic book) |
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1452224463 (electronic book) |
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1483349152 (electronic book) |
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9781483349152 (electronic book) |
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9781412992565 |
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1412992567 |
| Standard No. |
3646230 |
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