02695nam 2200613Ia 450 991079238590332120230207213444.01-136-97108-41-282-56955-497866125695550-203-85167-6(CKB)2670000000008941(EBL)465572(OCoLC)609846476(SSID)ssj0000358213(PQKBManifestationID)11265255(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358213(PQKBWorkID)10377397(PQKB)10029220(MiAaPQ)EBC465572(Au-PeEL)EBL465572(CaPaEBR)ebr10371479(CaONFJC)MIL256955(EXLCZ)99267000000000894120100113d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe concept of social change[electronic resource] a critique of the functionalist theory of social change /Anthony D. SmithAbingdon, Oxon ;New York Routledge20101 online resource (146 p.)Routledge revivalsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-57931-7 0-415-57920-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Preface; chapter 1 Functionalism and social change; chapter 2 The 'neo-evolutionary' revival; chapter 3 The stages of evolution; chapter 4 Modernism and modernisation; chapter 5 Revolution; chapter 6 Equilibrium and change; chapter 7 Evolution and history; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAnthony 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 chanRoutledge revivals.Social changeSocial evolutionSocial change.Social evolution.303.4Smith Anthony D288893MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792385903321The concept of social change3804145UNINA