ISBN:
9781351679947
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (433 pages)
Edition:
7th ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Harper, Charles L Exploring Social Change : America and the World
DDC:
303.4
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note to Instructors -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 By Way of Introduction -- What is Social Change? -- Sociology and Social Change -- What You Can Expect from This Book and How it is Organized -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- PART I EXPLAINING CHANGE -- Chapter 2 The Causes and Patterns of Change -- Theory in Sociology -- The Causes of Change -- Materialistic Perspectives -- Idealistic Perspectives -- Patterns of Change -- In Conclusion -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 3 Social Theory and Social Change -- Functionalist Theory -- Conflict Theory -- Multiple Perspectives and Change: Reconciling Agency and Structure -- In Conclusion: Large-Scale Change and Human Agency -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- PART II SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES -- Chapter 4 American Social Trends -- Structural Trends -- Changing Cultural Themes -- Countertrends and Reactions to Modernity: Antimodernism and Postmodernism -- In Conclusion -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 5 Change in the Settings of Everyday Life: Populations, Families, and Work -- Demographic Change -- Changing Families -- Transforming Work -- In Conclusion -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 6 Economics, Politics, and the American Prospect -- The Changing Economy -- Change in the Political System -- Change, Problems, and the American Prospect -- In Conclusion -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- PART III PROCESSES OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- Chapter 7 Social Movements -- What are Social Movements? -- Types of Social Movements -- Explaining the Origins of Social Movements -- In Conclusion -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 8 American Reform Movements and Social Change
Abstract:
The Social Context of Twentieth-Century American Reform Movements -- Social Class and Reform Movements at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Social Status and Reform Movements in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- In Conclusion: What Kinds of Changes Do Reform Movements Produce? -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 9 Revolutions -- What is a Social Revolution? -- Theories of Revolution -- The Outcomes of Revolution -- Successful and Failed Revolutions in the Contemporary Context -- A World Revolution: The Collapse of the Communist System -- But Was it a Revolution? -- In Conclusion: The Inevitability of Revolutionary Surprise -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 10 Technology, Innovation, and Networks -- Innovation as a Change Process -- The Act of Innovation -- Sources of Innovation: Social and Cultural -- Diffusion: How Innovations Spread -- Adoption of Innovation: Social Systems and Individuals -- Institutional Change and the Spread of Innovations -- Social Networks -- In Conclusion: Back at the Information Technology Revolution -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- PART IV GLOBAL CHANGE -- Chapter 11 The Emerging Global System: Development and Globalization -- Two Worlds -- What is Development? -- Uneven Development -- Developmentalist Thinking: Perspectives and Dimensions -- Explaining Failed Development -- Dependency and World Systems Theories -- Structure and Dynamics of the World System -- Globalization -- In Conclusion: Development, Globalization, and Human Progress -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 12 Society, Environment, and Change -- Ecological Perspectives on Change and Problems -- Aspects of Ecological Change and Problems -- Human Impacts and Global Environmental Change -- The Most Recent Debate on Global Sustainability
Abstract:
In Conclusion: Societies, Environment, and Global Stability -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Chapter 13 World Futures -- New World Order or New World Chaos? -- Looking at the Next 50 Years -- Prophetic Visions: Some Longer Views -- In Conclusion: The Third Revolution and Power from Below -- Thinking Personally about Social Change -- Epilogue: Living in a Rapidly Changing World -- References -- Subject Index
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