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Exploring Social Change : America and the World

ISBN: 9780130918383 | 0130918385
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
A core text that can be used with a wide variety of supplements for junior/senior and beginning-level graduate courses in Social Change. Ideal for those new to the subject, this compact and flexibly organized introduction to social change explores the big issues, but in a way that engages the life experiences of individuals (the micro-macro connection). Unlike most textswhich focus on particular types of change at particular levels of analysis and with particular theoretical slantsit shows the connection between many issues, using current data ... MORE
Prefaceviii
By Way of Introduction
1(12)
What Is Social Change?
4(6)
... MORESociology and Social Change
10(1)
What You Can Expect from This Book and How It Is Organized
10(3)
PART ONE SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES
American Social Trends
13(14)
Structural Trends
14(4)
Changing Cultural Themes
18(4)
Countertrends and Reactions: Anti- and Postmodernism
22(2)
In Conclusion
24(1)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
25(2)
Change and the Settings of Everyday Life: Population, Families, and Work
27(19)
Demographic Change
27(5)
Changing Families
32(6)
Transforming Work
38(6)
In Conclusion
44(1)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
44(2)
Economics, Politics, and the American Prospect
46(24)
The Changing Economy
46(6)
Change in the Political System
52(9)
Change, Problems, and the American Prospect
61(4)
In Conclusion
65(3)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
68(2)
PART TWO EXPLAINING CHANGE
The Causes and Patterns of Change
70(29)
Theory in Sociology
71(1)
The Causes of Change
72(1)
Materialistic Perspectives
72(3)
Idealistic Perspectives
75(6)
Patterns of Change
81(15)
In Conclusion
96(1)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
97(2)
Social Theory and Social Change
99(28)
Functionalist Theory
100(6)
Conflict Theory
106(9)
Interpretive Theory
115(8)
Multiple Perspectives and Change: Reconciling Agency and Structure
123(2)
In Conclusion: Large-Scale Change and Human Agency
125(1)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
125(2)
PART THREE PROCESSES OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Social Movements
127(24)
What Are Social Movements?
128(2)
Types of Social Movements
130(2)
Explaining the Origins of Social Movements
132(17)
In Conclusion
149(1)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
149(2)
American Reform Movements and Social Change
151(27)
The Social Context of Twentieth-Century American Reform Movements
151(2)
Social Class and Reform Movements at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
153(9)
Social Status and Reform Movements at Mid-Twentieth Century
162(12)
In Conclusion: What Kinds of Change Do Reform Movements Accomplish?
174(2)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
176(2)
Revolutions
178(32)
What Is a Social Revolution?
178(1)
Theories of Revolution?
179(11)
The Outcomes of Revolution
190(1)
A World Revolution: The Collapse of the Communist System
190(16)
In Conclusion: But Was It a Revolution?
206(2)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
208(2)
Technology, Innovation, and Networks
210(26)
Innovation as a Change Process
210(2)
The Act of Innovation
212(2)
Sources of Innovation: Social and Cultural
214(6)
Diffusion: How Innovations Spread
220(5)
Adoption of Innovation: Social Systems and Individuals
225(1)
Institutional Change and the Spread of Innovations
226(2)
Social Networks
228(4)
In Conclusion: Back at the Information Technology Revolution
232(3)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
235(1)
Creating Change
236(28)
Creating Change in Omaha: Muddling Through and Planning
238(5)
Basic Change Strategies
243(4)
The Role of Violence in Creating Change
247(3)
Mixed and Complex Strategies
250(4)
Being a Change Agent
254(4)
The Ethics of Inducing Change
258(2)
In Conclusion: Some Final Thoughts about the Feasibility of Creating Change
260(2)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
262(2)
PART FOUR GLOBAL CHANGE
The Emerging Global System: Development and Globalization
264(30)
Two Worlds
265(2)
What Is Development?
267(1)
Uneven Development
268(4)
Developmentalist Thinking: Perspectives and Dimensions
272(5)
Explaining Failed Development
277(1)
Dependency and World Systems Theory
278(2)
Structure and Dynamics of the World System
280(6)
Globalization
286(5)
In Conclusion: Development, Globalization, and Human Progress
291(2)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
293(1)
Society, Environment, and Change
294(24)
Ecological Perspectives on Change and Problems
294(3)
Aspects of Ecological Change and Problems
297(9)
Human Impacts and Global Environmental Change
306(7)
In Conclusion: Societies, Environment, and Global Stability
313(3)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
316(2)
World Futures
318(26)
New World Order or New World Chaos?
319(1)
Looking at the Next Fifty Years
320(11)
Prophetic Visions: Some Longer Views
331(9)
In Conclusion: The Third Revolution
340(3)
Thinking Personally about Social Change
343(1)
Epilogue: Living in a Rapidly Changing World344(4)
References348(32)
Author Index380(3)
Subject Index383

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