Books On Sociology Of Social Change

Social Change

Female Well-Being : Towards a Global Theory of Social Change Book by Janet Mancini Billson (Editor), Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Editor)

Sociology and Social Change in Korea Book by Man-Gap Lee

Re-Stating Social and Political Change (Sociology and Social Change) by Colin Hay

Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series) Book by Philip McMichael

Social Change (Sociology and Society) Tim Jordan (Editor), Steve Pile (Editor)

The Sociology of Social Change Book by Piotr Sztompka

Classified : How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change!
Book by Karen Pittelman, Resource Generation, Molly Hein

Karl Marx on Society and Social Change : With Selections by Friedrich Engels (Heritage of Sociology Series) Book by Karl Marx, Neil Smelser (Editor)

Education and Social Change (Sociology and Social Change) Book by Amanda Coffey

Changing Women, Unchanged Men?: Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-Industrial Society (Sociology and Social Change) Book by Sara Delamont

We, the People: American Character and Social Change (Contributions in Sociology) Book by Gordon J. DiRenzo

Reviews:

Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series) Book by Philip McMichael
A political perspective that views development and globalization as mechanisms of power and world ordering. Development and Social Change presents students with a coherent explanation of how "globalization" took root in the public discourse and how "globalization" represents a shift away from development as a way to think about non-western societies. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying globalization, social development, and social change in Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and International Studies.

Social Change (Sociology and Society) Tim Jordan (Editor), Steve Pile (Editor)
Reviewer: Tony Wairagu (Kenya)
Takes account of the ways in which sociology has been shaped by dialogue with disciplines such as cultural studies and women studies. Shows how, from sociology's early concerns with the transition to industrial and democratic social forms to recent debates over the rise of global societies, sociology has been centrally concerned with the nature and meaning of social change.

The Sociology of Social Change Book by Piotr Sztompka
The sociology of social change has always been the product of times of flux, and the unmatched dynamism of our period is already reflected in the revitalization of theories of change. This book covers the four grand visions of social and historical change which have dominated the field since the 19th century: the evolutionary, the cyclical, the dialectical, and the post-developmentalist. In so doing, it provides indispensable analytic discussions of the concepts focal to contemporary debates such as social process, development, progress, social time, historical tradition, modernity, post-modernity, and globalization.

Classified : How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change!
Book by Karen Pittelman, Resource Generation, Molly Hein
The fight for economic justice can draw stark battle lines. Where does that leave young people with wealth who believe in social change? They are afraid of being branded the enemy, yet are deeply committed to social justice. This conflict can lead most young people with wealth to keep their privilege hidden, making it impossible for them to bring their resources, access, and connections to the struggle for social change.

Karl Marx on Society and Social Change : With Selections by Friedrich Engels (Heritage of Sociology Series) Book by Karl Marx, Neil Smelser (Editor)
This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change.
The first section, "The Structure of Society," contains Marx's writings on the material basis of classes, the basis of the state, and the basis of the family.
The second section is titled "The Sweep of Historical Change."
The last section, "The Mechanisms of Change," reproduces several parts of Marx's analysis of the mechanisms by which contradictions develop in capitalism and generate group conflicts.

Education and Social Change (Sociology and Social Change) Book by Amanda Coffey
Education and Social Change undertakes a systematic sociological analysis of contemporary educational policy and practice. In doing so it charts the substantial and significant changes that education systems have undergone over recent decades, and places them within a broader context of social change.

Changing Women, Unchanged Men?: Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-Industrial Society (Sociology and Social Change) Book by Sara Delamont
The key questions 'Have women changed? Have men stayed the same?' are posed, within the context of current sociological debates on social change.

We, the People: American Character and Social Change (Contributions in Sociology) Book by Gordon J. DiRenzo
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave: Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, In this book Cowan analyzes housework in America from the 17th century through until the present. She looks at the shifting importance of the house in industrialization, and examines how household tasks have become industrialized and how this has made more work for women.

Baerveldt Chris, Bunkers Hans, De Winter Micha, Kooistra Jan, 1998, Assessing a moral panic relating to crime and drug policy in the Netherlands: Toward a testable theory, in “Crime, Law & Social Change”.

Bruce Steve, 1983, Social change and collective behaviour: the revival in eighteenth-century Ross-shire, in “The British Journal of Sociology”.

Burns Ronald, Crawford Charles, 1999, School shootings, the media, and public fear: Ingredients for a moral panic, in “Crime, Law & Social Change”.

Cuklanz Lisa M., 1996, Rape on Trial - How the mass media construct legal reform and social change, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

Furlong Andy, Cartmel Fred, 1997, Young People and Social Change - Individualization and risk in late modernity, Open University Press, Buckingham.

Pearson Geoffrey, 1975, The Deviant Imagination - Psychiatry, Social Work and Social Change, The Macmillan Press Ltd, London.

Ron Westrum, Chapter 3. "The Ogbum Generation." in Technologies & Society: The Shaping of People and Things. pp. 50-67. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991.

Ron Westrum, Chapter 4. "Recent Theoretical Approaches." in Technologies & Society: The Shaping of People and Things. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991. (CP)

Hughes, Thomas P. "The Evolution of Large Technological Systems" in Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes and Trevor J. Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 1987. (CP)

George Basalla, Chapter 1. "Diversity, Necessity, and Evolution." pp. 1-25. in The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge University Press, 1988. (CP)

Henry Petroski,. Chapter 4. "From Pins to Paper Clips." in The Evolution of Useful Things. pp. 51-77, 255-257. New York: Vintage Books, 1994 (CP)

Ron Westrum, Chapter 9. "The Sponsorship of Technology." in Technologies & Society: The Shaping of People and Things. pp. 171-193. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991. (CP)

Everett M. Rogers, Chapter 7. "Innovativeness and Adopter Categories." pp. 241-251. in Diffusion of Innovations 3rd Ed.. The Free Press, 1983. (CP)

Ellen Ullman, Chapter 5. pp. 95-121. Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents. City Lights Books: San Francisco, 1997. (CP)

Ron Westrum, Chapter 12. "Adapting and Tinkering." in Technologies & Society: The Shaping of People and Things. pp. 237-249. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother, Chapter 1, “An Introduction: Housework and Its Tools”, pp.3-15.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother, Chapter 2, “Housewifery: Household Work and Household Tools under Pre-Industrial Conditions”, pp.16-39.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother, Chapter 3, “The Invention of Housework: The Early Stages of Industrialization”, pp.40-68.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother, Chapter 4, “Twentieth-Century Changes in Household Technology”, pp.69-101.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother, Chapter 5, “The Roads Not Taken: Alternative Social and Technical Approaches to Housework”, pp.102-150.

Thomas K. Landauer, Chapter 1. "The Evidence." pp. 13-45, 367-371. in The Trouble with Computers. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. (CP)

Thomas K. Landauer, Chapter 2. "What Computers Do." pp. 47-72, 371-375. in The Trouble with Computers. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. (CP)

Edward Tenner, Chapter 9. "The Computerized Office: Productivity Puzzles." pp. 235-267, 396-400. Why Things Bite Back. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. (CP)

Selected Social Change Online Resources:

Social Change - by Wilbert E. Moore. .
Social Change in the Twentieth Century - by Daniel Chirot.
Culture and Change: An Introduction - by Larry L. Naylor.
Perspectives on Social Change - by Robert H. Lauer.
Logic on the Track of Social Change - by David Braybrooke, Bryson Brown, Peter K. Schotch.
The Analysis of Social Change Reconsidered; a Sociological Study - by J. A. Ponsioen.
Interpreting Social Change in America - by Norman F. Washburne.
Social Change Philanthropy in America - by Alan Rabinowitz, David R. Hunter..
Social Change in Western Europe - by Colin Crouch.
Reflections on Anger: Women and Men in a Changing Society - by Christa Reiser.
Poor People's Social Movement Organizations: The Goal Is to Win - by Melvin F. Hall.
Dynamics of Social Change: A Reader in Marxist Social Science, from the Writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin - by Howard Selsam, David Goldway, Harry Martel. .

Social Change Through Land Reforms/Paramjit S. Judge. 1999, 212 p., ISBN 81-7033-492-X. - Contents: Preface. 1. Politics of land reforms. 2. Haryana: rich in methods of evasion of land reform laws. 3. Rajasthan: feudal remnants and rising social groups make it difficult. 4. Gujarat: discrepancy in government claims and actual situation. 5. Karnataka: efforts from above succeed. 6. Kerala: pressure from below succeeds. 7. Politics of social change.

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