When History Accelerates - Essays on Rapid Social Change, Complexity and Creativity

Rapid and complex social change is of urgent concern to all human societies, but how can researchers do justice both to the objective complexities of causal relations and to subjective experiences of different types of change? The present volume focuses upon cases of ''accelerating change'' - including Russia, Iran, South Africa and Turkey - and examines some of the theoretical issues involved in conceptualizing social change and transformation and the methods for their study. The fifteen essays in this collection will be of interest to all students of history and the social sciences; and especially to students of social anthropology, sociology and development studies.>

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• Authors: C M Hann, C. M. Hann, C. M. (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthr Hann
• Assisted by: C. M. Hann (Editor), C. M. (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Hann (Editor), Hann C. M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474287210
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8721-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic; History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, General & world history, Social and cultural history, Sociology & anthropology, General and world history, Sociology and anthropology