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Understanding Change
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Author : S. C. Dube
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Understanding Change written by S. C. Dube and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
"This book is about the complex processes of cultural, economic, social, and technological change. Change is inevitable, but it does not follow a narrow and straight path: developmental change has to encounter many ambiguities and ambivalences, contractions and paradoxes." "How do anthropology and sociology explain change? What are the main strands in the contemporary development debate? What is the new thinking on the role of culture and tradition? What are the implications of ethnicity for developmental aims and programmes? Can the process of change be guided and influenced? Have the social sciences a role? This book addresses itself to these questions." "Students of anthropology, sociology, and development studies as well as those engaged in development programmes and policy-making will find in it much that sharpens their insights and broadens their understanding."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Ways Of Social Change
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Author : Garth Massey
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2015-07-13
Ways Of Social Change written by Garth Massey and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with Social Science categories.
The world is at our fingertips, but understanding what is going on has never been more daunting. Garth Massey’s Ways of Social Change is a primer for making sense of both rapidly moving events and the cultural and structural forces on which social life is built, while teaching critical thinking skills needed to understand social change. With an approach that is fresh, timely, challenging, and engaging, Ways of Social Change shows students how social change is both a lived experience and the result of our actions in the world. It invites the reader into the realm of social science, where clarification, understanding, and inquiry provide for both informed opinions and a path to effective involvement. The core of the book focuses on five forces that powerfully influence the direction, scope and speed of social change: science and technology, social movements, war and revolution, large corporations, and the state. A concluding chapter encourages students to examine their own perspectives and offers ways to engage in social change, now and in their lifetime.
Understanding Social Change
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Author : Anthony Francis Heath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Understanding Social Change written by Anthony Francis Heath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Great Britain categories.
These essays not only describe the major changes in British society in recent years, but seek to understand and explain what is happening. They consider the wide variety of mechanisms that underlie these changes, in particular processes of social interaction.
The Concept Of Social Change Routledge Revivals
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Author : Anthony D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-01-14
The Concept Of Social Change Routledge Revivals written by Anthony D. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-14 with Social Science categories.
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.
Understanding Social Change
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Author : Anthony F. Heath
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-17
Understanding Social Change written by Anthony F. Heath and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-17 with Political Science categories.
These essays not only describe the major changes in British society in recent years, but seek to understand and explain what is happening. While there have been rapid changes in overall levels, there have been slower changes in relativities, and this distinction is fundamental to a proper understanding of contemporary society. The book considers the wide variety of mechanisms that underlie these changes, in particular processes of social interaction. The complex and often ill-understood nature of these mechanisms may be a major reason why so much social reform has proved ineffective. The verdict on social reforms in education, gender inequalities and ethnic inequalities is rather negative; sociologists have been concerned about the unintended consequences of social action.
Anthropology And Development
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Author : Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Anthropology And Development written by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Social Science categories.
This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
Social Change Theories In Motion
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Author : Thomas C. Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Social Change Theories In Motion written by Thomas C. Patterson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Understanding Social Change
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Author : Agnieszka Golec
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2006
Understanding Social Change written by Agnieszka Golec and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
Understanding Social Change - Political Psychology in Poland
Understanding Society Culture And Change
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Author : Subhadra Channa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Understanding Society Culture And Change written by Subhadra Channa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Anthropology categories.
With special reference to India.
Explaining Social Processes
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Author : Jiří Šubrt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-18
Explaining Social Processes written by Jiří Šubrt and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Social Science categories.
This textbook considers understanding social processes to be the main task of sociology. From this perspective its authors demonstrate and explain problems which they consider to be crucial for contemporary social science. These are topics of a theoretical and epistemological nature, which are nevertheless closely connected with social development and issues arising from it. The book moves from the more general theoretical questions and dilemmas raised by key social thinkers, such as those connected with the concepts of actor, agency, institutions, structures and systems. It then leads to theoretical reflections on long-term developmental processes associated with the phenomena of power and life in current societies, including globalization, identities, migration, etc. It provides a comprehensive approach to the essential questions of sociology. Lucidly written and including the latest sociological perspectives, this book will find wide appeal among social science students and researchers, and is also for the socially aware general reader.