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9780312233945

Paradigms of Social Change : Modernizaton, Development, Transformation, Evolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312233945

  • ISBN10:

    0312233949

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-07-06
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $135.00

Summary

Social change has been a recurrent topic of social thought since the 18th century. From Condorcet and Comte, Marx and Spencer up to Durkheim and Weber, the classical authors of social science have reflected on the trajectories and dynamics of human societies. After the second World War, the emergence of a world society has challenged sociology and social anthropology, political science and economics into new sustained research. Today, with intensely felt globalization and the breakdown of once firmly held ideas about the future, the social sciences are requested to reexamine their conceptual and analytical tools. Four paradigms have guided investigations of social change: modernization, development, evolution and more recently, transformation. Confronting these paradigms, this book asks: How do different conceptualizations of social change compare? What are they mainly interested in and what are their corresponding blind spots? How and why has social scientists' reasoning about social change itself changed?

Author Biography

Waltraud Schelkle is a sociologist and Programme Manager of the Interdisciplinary Research Groups of the Berlin Wolf-Hagan Krauth is Associate Professor of International Economic Relations at the Free University of Berlin.

Martin Kohli is Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin.

Georg Elwert is Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(4)
Introduction: Paradigms lost - and found 11(20)
Waltraud Schelkle
Wolf-Hagen Krauth
Modernization
Modernization Theory and Economic Growth
31(18)
Johannes Berger
``Modernization'' Discourses, their Limitations, and their Alternatives
49(24)
Goran Therborn
Comment on Goran Therborn
73(4)
Hans Joas
Modernization as Transformation
77(18)
Andreas Wimmer
Summary: Modernization
91(4)
Transformation
Struggle, Democratization, and Political Transformation
95(16)
Charles Tilly
The System Paradigm
111(24)
Janos Kornai
Reflections on Janos Kornai's Notion of a ``System Paradigm''
135(10)
Andreas Ryll
A Paradigm Destroyed. On the Opportunity of Revising Theories of Institutional Transformation
145(26)
Helmut Wiesenthal
Summary: Transformation
167(4)
Development
Evolution of Development Theory and Strategy: Changing Perceptions of the Role of the Market, State and Foreign Trade
171(28)
T.N. Srinivasan
States Against Markets: Comments on T.N. Srinivasan
199(20)
Ulrich Menzel
The Development Paradigm in Economics: Comment on T.N. Srinivasan
219(12)
Waltraud Schelkle
The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries
231(26)
Charles Gore
Summary: Development
253(4)
Evolution
Evolution: The Darwinian Theory of Social Change
257(26)
Peter J. Richerson
Richard Boyd
Why Darwinism Fails in Explaining Social and Cultural Evolution - Comments on Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
283(8)
Max Miller
Theories of Social Change - A Remark on the Status of Evolutionary Theories
291(8)
Andre Kieserling
The Evolutionary Paradigm in the Social Sciences - An Economist's Point of View
299(8)
Uwe Cantner
More than a Metaphor: the neo-Darwinian Paradigm for the Explanation of Social Change
307(12)
W.G. Runciman
Summary: Evolution
315(4)
Authors 319

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