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Informationen zum Autor Jay Weinstein is a native of Chicago and received his B.A. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His M.A. is from Washington University- St. Louis, and he pursued additional graduate studies at McGill University (Montreal) and Madras (now Chennai) University in India. He served on the faculties of the University of Iowa, The Georgia Institute of Technology, and Eastern Michigan University, where he now holds the Rank of Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Social Change 3e and Applying Social Statistics. During the course of his nearly fifty year career, he has been active with the American Sociological Association, as Chair of the Section on Sociological Practice and co-founder of the Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, He also served as President of the Michigan Sociological Association, The North Central Sociological Association, and The Society for Applied Sociology. He edited the journal, Studies in Comparative International Development for ten years and is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Social Science. He is the recipient of many awards of recognition for his teaching, research, and service to the profession, including two Fulbright Professorships in India. Klappentext This introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the human condition, balancing theory with observation and incorporating comparative global examples throughout. The third edition of Social Change has been thoroughly updated and revised, including a new discussion of the current economic crisis and the interconnectedness of the global economy, new empirical data on globalization, and updated discussions of evolution and altruism. Zusammenfassung This introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the human condition! balancing theory with observation and incorporating comparative global examples throughout. The third edition of Social Change has been thoroughly u... Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Boxes, Figures, and TablesPrefacePART I The Study of ChangeChapter 1: The Social Scientific PerspectiveChapter 2: Social and Cultural EvolutionPART II The Components of ChangeChapter 3: Population Growth and Demographic TransitionChapter 4: The Heritage and Dynamics of CultureChapter 5: Social Structures, Systems, and ProcessesPART III The Engines of ChangeChapter 6: Social Movements: Concepts and PrinciplesChapter 7: Movements and Revolutions in ContextChapter 8: The Process of Technological InnovationPART IV Change at the MacrolevelChapter 9: From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft: The Urbanization of the Human PopulationChapter 10: A World DividedChapter 11: The Market, Capitalism, and SocialismPART V Planned Change: Making Tomorrow's SocietyChapter 12: The Paradoxes of DevelopmentChapter 13: Democratic Planning and Applied SociologyChapter 14: The Political Economy of GlobalizationNotesReferencesIndexAbout the Author...
