The Sociology of Social Change
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-18205-4 (ISBN)
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Piotr Sztompka's aim in this volume is to take stock of and to reappraise the whole legacy of sociological thinking about change, from the classical to the contemporary, providing the intellectual tools necessary for a critical and rational grasp of our own turbulent times. Intended primarily as an advanced textbook for upper-division and graduate students, as well as researchers, this book covers the four grand visions of social and historical change which have dominated the field since the 19th century: the evolutionary, the cyclical, the dialectical and the post-developmentalist. In so doing, it provides indispensable analytic discussions of the concepts focal to contemporary debates such as social process; development; progress; social time; historical tradition; modernity; post-modernity; and globalization .
Part 1 Concepts and Categories: Fundamental Concepts in the Study of Change; Vicissitudes of the Idea of Progress; Temporal Dimension of Society - Social Time; Modalities of Historical Tradition; Modernity and Beyond; Globalization of Human Society. Part 2 Three Grand Visions of History: Classical Evolutionism; Neo-evolutionism; Theories of Modernization - Old and New; Theories of Historical Cycles; Historical Materialism. Part 3 Alternative Vision: Making History; Against Developmentalism - Modern Critique; History as a Human Product - Evolving Theory of Agency; New Historical Sociology - Concreteness and Contingency; Social Becoming - the Essence of Historical Change. Part 4 Aspects of Social Becoming: Ideas as Historical Forces; Normative Emergence - Evasions and Innovations; Great Individuals as Agents of Change; Social Movements as Forces of Change; Revolutions - the Peak of Social Change.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.10.1993 |
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| Zusatzinfo | bibliography |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 171 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-18205-5 / 0631182055 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-18205-4 / 9780631182054 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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