03643nam 2200577 a 450 991048090940332120170822130452.01-4833-4915-21-4522-3715-81-4522-2446-3(CKB)2550000001197911(EBL)1598332(SSID)ssj0001112268(PQKBManifestationID)12512893(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112268(PQKBWorkID)11158893(PQKB)11001959(MiAaPQ)EBC1598332(OCoLC)869282296(StDuBDS)EDZ0000174365(EXLCZ)99255000000119791120131121d2012 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow societies change[electronic resource] /Daniel ChirotSecond edition.Thousand Oaks, Calif. ;London Pine Forge20121 online resource (185 p.)Sociology for a new century seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4129-9256-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.An exploration of how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, despite their great success, have created a new set of recurring and unsolved problems which will serve as a major impetus for further social change.Sociology for a new century.Social changeSocial evolutionElectronic books.Social change.Social evolution.303.4Chirot Daniel158335StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910480909403321How societies change18983UNINA