Download or read book Social Change Theories in Motion written by Thomas C. Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators, living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others built on those perspectives; a few changed the way we think. While surveying earlier writers, the author’s primary concerns are theorists who sought to explain industrialization, imperialism, and the consolidation of nation-states after 1840. Marx, Durkheim, and Weber still shape our understandings of the past, present, and future. Patterson focuses on explanations of the unsettled conditions that crystallized in the 1910s and still persist: the rise of socialist states, anti-colonial movements, prolonged economic crises, and almost continuous war. After 1945, theorists in capitalist countries, influenced by Cold War politics, saw social change in terms of economic growth, progress, and modernization; their contemporaries elsewhere wrote about underdevelopment, dependency, or uneven development. In the 1980s, theorists of postmodernity, neoliberalism, globalization, innovations in communications technologies, and post-socialism argued that they rendered earlier accounts insufficient. Others saw them as manifestations of a new imperialism, capitalist accumulation on a global scale, environmental crises, and nationalist populism.
Download or read book The Concept of Social Change Routledge Revivals written by Anthony D. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.
Download or read book An Introduction to Theories of Social Change written by Hermann Strasser and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontiers in Social Movement Theory written by Assoc Professor Carol McClurg Mueller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of social movements that goes beyond theories currently in use.
Download or read book Social Change written by Alicia Swords and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Change: Movements, Politics, and Technology is a groundbreaking exploration of social transformation from a conflict theory perspective, offering a deep dive into the historical and sociological analysis of leaders within contemporary social movements. This text-reader is an essential guide for those seeking to understand the dynamics of social change and the role of social actors in shaping the future.
Download or read book Social Change And Social Control written by Rajendra Kumar Sharma and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Covers Syllabi In The Papers Social Dynamics; Social Change And Social Control, Prescribed By Indian Universities. Part I On Social Change Includes The Discussion Of Social Change, Social Selection, Theories Of Social Change, Social Development, Social Evolution, Social Revolution And Factors And Sources Of Social Change Including Population; Fashion, Style, Fad And Craze; Education; Culture And Civilization; Social Progress, Social Interaction And Social Processes. Part Ii On Social Control Includes Discussion On Social Organization, Status And Role; Individual, Society And Socialization; Suggestion, Imitation And Sympathy, Meaning, Types And Agencies Of Social Control And Factors And Sources Of Social Control Including Social Groups, Family Group, Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, Religious Institutions, Propaganda, Public Opinion And Social Codes.
Download or read book Paradigms of Social Change written by Waltraud Schelkle and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Problem of Social Change written by Newell LeRoy Sims and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Change written by Ronald S. Edari and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1976 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Social Change written by Charles L. Harper and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to social change focuses on theories that explain social change, innovation, social movements, and revolutions. The last part of the book shifts explicitly to the global level to analyze population and environmental issues and globalization. Within this framework, the book discusses topics about change and its problems familiar in sociology and social science.
Download or read book Social Movements and Social Change written by Robert H. Lauer and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of readings is designed as a supplement to a general social change or specific social movement text. It is thus intended as an important first contribution to bridging the intradisciplinary gap in sociology. The 14 previously published and original contributions brought together here are grouped under 4 main divisions: (1) the impact of change upon movements, (2) movement strategies for change, (3) the effects of movements on change, and (4) the consequences of effecting change. The editor has contributed an extensive introduction on the interrelationships of change and a concluding chapter summarizing directions for the future. By providing a broad range of movements and a number of different social contexts he has provided a highly stimulating selection of readings.
Download or read book Explorations in Social Change written by George K. Zollschan and published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composite work on social change - covers social structures, social theory, social movements, political problems, social integration, social psychology, historical aspects of political systems, the evolution of sociology, cultural change, the social status of women, sociological aspects of economic growth, trade unionism, educational level, etc. Bibliographys at the end of each chapter, and statistical tables.
Download or read book The Challenge of Social Change written by Orlando Fals-Borda and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the need to develop new research methods in social research in order to explain social change - examines the contribution of social problems, social conflicts and cultural factors to political problems and revolution; includes a cross cultural analysis of nationalism; criticizes capitalism in the USA and the role of USA in exporting a postindustrial society life style; reviews the interpretation of social movements by different social theories, etc. Bibliography.
Download or read book Social Change written by Steven Vago and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1980 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate for courses in Social Change, the Fourth Edition provides a clear and timely analysis of the major theoretical perspectives, sources, processes, patterns and consequences of social change.
Download or read book Social Movement Theory and Research written by Roberta Garner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews and explores social movement theory from the end of World War II to the mid-1990s, focusing primarily on the United States, with some attention to European scholarship as well.
Download or read book A Theory of Fields written by Neil Fligstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social movement thoery, organizational theory, economic, and political sociology. The problems at the core of these areas, Fligstein and McAdam argue, have a similar analytic and theoretical structure. Synthesizing much of this work, A Theory of Fields offers a general perspective on how to understand the problems related to understanding change and instability in modern, complex societies through a theory of strategic action fields.
Download or read book Studies in Social Change written by Amitai Etzioni and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays on social change, including 3 case studies of change in Israel and among American Jewry - also includes a study of the elite, social planning for change, psychological aspects, and social theories. References.
