| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (182 pages) : maps. |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Sociology for a new century series |
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Sociology for a new century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Social change.
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Social evolution.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chirot, Danie. How societies change. Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE/Pine Forge Press, [2012] xii, 165 pages ; 23 cm. Sociology for a new century series 9781412992565 (OCoLC)ocn701242216 (DLC) 2011002696 |
| ISBN |
9781412992565 (pbk.) |
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1412992567 (pbk.) |
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9781452224466 (e-book) |
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