(eTextbook PDF) for Social Change 3rd Edition by Jay Weinstein

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781442203006
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1442203006
• Author: Jay Weinstein

This edition of Social Change has been thoroughly updated and revised. Building on previous editions, the book introduces a social scientific approach to change, discusses the components of change and the factors driving them, examines change on the macro-level, then looks toward the future with a discussion of planned change. Most chapters explore societies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and include comparative dimensions, especially along First, Second, and Third World lines. The engaging narrative traces several themes, such as the rise of capitalism and the socialist alternative, or civil rights movements in the United States and elsewhere, throughout the book.

Table contents:

PART I The Study of Change

Chapter 1: The Social Scientific Perspective

Chapter 2: Social and Cultural Evolution

PART II The Components of Change

Chapter 3: Population Growth and Demographic Transition

Chapter 4: The Heritage and Dynamics of Culture

Chapter 5: Social Structures, Systems, and Processes

PART III The Engines of Change

Chapter 6: Social Movements: Concepts and Principles

Chapter 7: Movements and Revolutions in Context

Chapter 8: The Process of Technological Innovation

PART IV Change at the Macrolevel

Chapter 9: From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft: The Urbanization of the Human Population

Chapter 10: A World Divided

Chapter 11: The Market, Capitalism, and Socialism

PART V Planned Change: Making Tomorrow’s Society

Chapter 12: The Paradoxes of Development

Chapter 13: Democratic Planning and Applied Sociology

Chapter 14: The Political Economy of Globalization