Exploring Social Change : America and the World

by Harper, Charles L.

Edition:

3rd

ISBN13:

9780133086850

ISBN10:

0133086852

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Hardcover

Pub. Date:

1/1/1998

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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For upper division undergraduate and beginning-level graduate courses in social and cultural change. Beginning with an introduction to sociology and social change, this text discusses social science concepts, theories, and models about change. The later chapters focus on world-scale trends and change, such as development, globalization, environmental issues, and prospects for the future.

A Note to Instructors

viii

(1)

Preface

Chapter 1 -- By Way of Introduction

(11)

What Is Social Change?

(4)

Sociology and Social Change

(1)

What You Can Expect from This Book and How It Is Organized

(3)

Part One -- Social Change in the United States

(50)

Chapter 2 -- American Social Trends

(12)

Structural Trends

(3)

Changing Cultural Themes

(4)

Countertrends and Reactions: Anti-and Postmodernism

(2)

In Conclusion

(2)

Chapter 3 -- Change and the Settings of Everyday Life: Population, Families, and Work

(18)

Demographic Change

(4)

Changing Families

(6)

Transforming Work

(5)

In Conclusion

(3)

Chapter 4 -- Economics, Politics, and the American Prospect

(20)

The Changing Economy

(5)

Change in the Political System

(7)

Change, Problems, and the American Prospect

(3)

Conclusion

(5)

Part Two -- Explaining Change

(51)

Chapter 5 -- The Causes and Patterns of Change

(26)

The Causes of Change

(1)

Materialistic Perspectives

(2)

Idealistic Perspectives

(5)

Patterns of Change

(14)

Summary: Causes and Patterns of Change

(3)

Chapter 6 -- Sociological Theory and Change

(25)

Functionalist Theory

(5)

Conflict Theory

(7)

Interpretive Theory

101

(7)

Multiple Perspectives and Change: Reconciling Agency and Structure

108

(2)

In Conclusion: Large-scale Change and Human Agency

110

(3)

Part Three -- Processes of Social Change

113

(117)

Chapter 7 -- Social Movements

113

(21)

What Are Social Movements?

114

(1)

Types of Social Movements

115

(2)

Explaining the Origins of Social Movements

117

(15)

Conclusion

132

(2)

Chapter 8 -- American Reform Movements and Social Change

134

(24)

The Social Context of Twentieth Century American Reform Movements

134

(1)

Social Class and Reform Movements at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

135

(8)

Social Status and Reform Movements at Mid Twentieth Century

143

(11)

Conclusion: What Kinds of Change Do Reform Movements Accomplish?

154

(4)

Chapter 9 -- Revolutions

158

(26)

What Is a Revolution?

158

(1)

Theories of Revolution

159

(9)

The Outcomes of Revolution

168

(1)

A World Revolution: The Collapse of the Communist System

169

(12)

Conclusion: But Was it a Revolution?

181

(3)

Chapter 10 -- Technology, Innovation, and Networks

184

(22)

Innovation as a Change Process

184

(2)

The Act of Innovation

186

(1)

Sources of Innovation: Social and Cultural

187

(5)

Diffusion: How Innovations Spread

192

(4)

Adoption of Innovation: Social Systems and Individuals

196

(2)

Social Networks

198

(4)

Back at the Information Technology Revolution

202

(4)

Chapter 11 -- Creating Change

206

(24)

Change in Omaha: Muddling Through and Planning

207

(5)

Basic Change Strategies

212

(3)

The Role of Violence in Creating Change

215

(2)

Mixed and Complex Strategies

217

(4)

Being a Change Agent

221

(2)

The Ethics of Inducing Change

223

(2)

Some Final Thoughts about the Feasibility of Creating Change

225

(5)

Part Four -- Global Change

230

(73)

Chapter 12 -- The Emerging World System: Development and Globalization

230

(27)

Two Worlds

230

(2)

What Is Development?

232

(1)

Uneven Development

233

(5)

"Developmentalist" Thinking: Perspectives and Dimensions

238

(4)

Explaining Failed Development

242

(2)

Dependency and World Systems Theory

244

(1)

Structure and Dynamics of the World System

245

(6)

Globalization

251

(3)

Development, Globalization, and Human Progress

254

(3)

Chapter 13 -- Society, Environment, and Change

257

(22)

Ecological Perspectives on Change and Problems

257

(2)

Dimensions of Ecological Change

259

(9)

Human Impacts and Global Environmental Change

268

(6)

Conclusion: Societies, Environment, and Global Stability

274

(5)

Chapter 14 -- World Futures

279

(24)

New World Order or New World Chaos?

280

(1)

Looking at the Next 50 Years

281

(9)

Prophetic Visions: Some Longer Views

290

(8)

In Conclusion: The "Third Revolution"

298

(5)

Epilogue: Living in a Rapidly Changing World

303

(4)

References

307

(27)

Author Index

334

(4)

Subject Index

338

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