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245 10 a| How societies change /c| Daniel Chirot.;

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How societies change / Daniel Chirot.

Author/creator	Chirot, Daniel
Format	Book
Edition	2nd ed.
Publication Info	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE/Pine Forge Press, ©2012.
Description	xii, 165 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Social change. Social evolution.

Series	Sociology for a new century series Sociology for a new century. ^A348834
Contents	1. Evolution and early human societies : Physical and cultural evolution: differences and similarities ; Causes of change in early societies ; From collecting, hunting, and fishing to agriculture -- Agrarian societies : The invention of the state ; Class status, and force: increasing inequality and making it hereditary ; Nomads, migrants, and other raiders ; Great cultures: the moral basis of agrarian civilizations ; The problem of administration and the cycle of political decay and reconstruction ; The conservatism of village life ; The demographic cycle in agrarian societies ; The potential for rapid innovation: the importance of peripheries ; The limits of analogy: societies are not species, and cultural evolution is not biological -- The rise of the West : Europe's ecological advantages ; Religious discordance and political stalemate: the basis for western rationalization ; Science, knowledge, and exploration in China and Western Europe ; The growth of European empires and the transformation of the economy ; Overcoming the agrarian population cycle ; The invention of nationalism and its consequences ; The legitimation of commerce: the ideological basis of the Industrial Revolution -- The Modern era : Industrial cycles ; Internal and international social consequences of modernization and industrial cycles ; Economic class and political power in modern societies ; Political ideologies and protests: two centuries of revolutions ; The unending effort to adapt to modernity ; Ecological pressures persist -- Toward a theory of social change : Why change occurs ; The new or the old?: The paradox of institutional resistance to change ; Freedom or control?: The dilemma of the modern era.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.
LCCN	2011002696
ISBN	9781412992565 (pbk.)
ISBN	1412992567 (pbk.)
Standard identifier#	3646230

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