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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
The distribution of the worlds material wealth is far from even. And while most of
the western world may be accustomed to a commercial culture, there are other cultures
(e.g., Amish, Islamic, peasant) that are not commercial or are uncomfortable with
commercial definition. Because cultural meaning is not universally defined through the
market, "globalization," as it is currently understood, is not necessarily a
universal aspiration.
Why then, is there so much talk of globalization? In this Third Edition of Development and
Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael provides a narrative of how
development came to be institutionalized as an international project, pursued by
individual nation-states in the post-colonial era. This new edition has been updated and
revised to incorporate the treatments of fundamentalism, terrorism, the AIDS crisis, and
the commercialization of services via the World Trade Organization.
The evident failure of many countries to fulfill this promise of development and the
worlds growing awareness of environmental limits have forced a reevaluation of the
development enterprise. Development and Social Change traces the changing fortunes of
development efforts, the shortcomings of which have produced two responses. One is to
advocate a thoroughly global market to expand trade and spread the wealth. The other is to
reevaluate the economic emphasis and to recover a sense of cultural community.
Features of this book:
A world-historical perspective that situates globalization in the declining fortunes of
the postwar development project.
A political perspective that views development and globalization as practices managed by
historic elite groupings, as mechanisms of power and world ordering.
An emphasis on resistance and social movements as actors shaping the meaning and direction
of both development and globalization, as they impact societies around the world.
A series of case studies that allow in-depth examination of development/globalization
dilemmas and paradoxes.
Development and Social Change is the first book to present 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.
To read a sample chapter from Development and Social Change click on "Additional
Materials" in the left column under "About This Book" or simply click here.
Philip McMichael grew up in Alelaide, South Australia, and is presently Professor of Rural
and Development Sociology at Cornell University. His book The Agrarian Question:
Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (1984) won the Social Science History
Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. He is also the editor of The Global
Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994) and Food and Agrarian Orders in the World
Economy (1995).
Social
Change (Sociology and Society) Tim Jordan (Editor), Steve Pile
(Editor)
Reviewer: Tony Wairagu (Kenya)
Introduces key concerns and debates of contemporary sociology. Takes account of the ways
in which sociology has been shaped by dialogue with adjacent disciplines and intellectual
movements, 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 information , networked or 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. Piotr Sztompka takes stock of and reappraises the whole legacy of sociological
thinking about change, from the classical to the contemporary, providing the intellectual
tools necessary for a critical and rational grasp of our own turbulent times. As an
advanced textbook for upper-division and graduate students, as well as researchers, 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.
Piotr Sztompka is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow,
Poland, and a regular Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He
has also taught as Visiting Professor at Columbia University, the University of Michigan,
Johns Hopkins University and the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He has published many
books, including: System and Function (1974), Sociological Dilemmas (1979), Rethinking
Progress with J. Alexander (1990) and Society in Action (1991).
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, with the fight portrayed
simplistically as Us versus Them, with the rich in the role of "Them." So where
does that leave young people with wealth who believe in social change? Afraid of being
branded the enemy, yet deeply committed to social justice, they're left in a confusing
no-man's land. 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. Coauthored by Karen Pittelman, who
dissolved her $3 million trust fund to cofound a foundation for low-income women
activists, Classified is a resource guide for people with class privilege who are tired of
cover-ups and ready to figure out how their privilege really works. Complete with comics,
exercises, and personal stories, this book gives readers the tools they need to put their
privilege to work 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 editor, Neil J.
Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included
works by Friedrich Engels.
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. Among the
writings included in this section are Marx's well-known summary from the Preface of A
Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy and his equally famous observations on the
functional significance of religion in relation to politics.
The second section is titled "The Sweep of Historical Change." The first
selection here contains Marx's first statement of the main precapitalist forms of
production. The second selection focuses on capitalism, its contradictions, and its
impending destruction. Two brief final selections treat the nature of communism,
particularly its freedom from the kinds of contradictions that have plagued all earlier
forms of societies.
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. Included is an analysis of competition and its effects on the various
classes, a discussion of economic crises and their effects on workers, and Marx's
presentation of the historical specifics of the class struggle.
In his comprehensive Introduction to the selections, Professor Smelser provides a
biography of Marx, indentifies the various intellectual traditions which formed the
background for Marx's writings, and discusses the selections which follow. The editor
describes Marx's conception of society as a social system, the differences between
functionalism and Marx's theories, and the dynamics of economic and political change as
analyzed by Marx.
Neil J. Smelser is Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford.
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. Thematically structured, thociology of education to
provide a coherent and logical text. It takes a comprehensive approach, summarizing
transformations that have occurred in educational policy, and addressing the consequences
for institutions as well as for teachers, parents and learners. The author explores the
complex and changing relationships between the state and the processes and practices of
education. She also stresses the importance of educational experiences for the
(re)production of collective and individual biographies. The result is an invaluable text
for sociology and social policy students as well as for education professionals engaged in
training or further study.
Changing
Women, Unchanged Men?: Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-Industrial Society
(Sociology and Social Change) Book by Sara Delamont
* Is it true that women have changed and men have not?
* Is feminism still relevant?
* Are men the new underclass?
There is an enormous social science and wider literature on women, and a rapidly growing
one on men and masculinity. The cliche that women have changed and men have not is well
worn, yet no single text has established the truth behind this claim. Through a thorough
examination of research evidence, this volume subjects that cliche to a tough, sceptical
sociological analysis. Changing Women, Unchanged Men? compares the experiences of males
and females in childhood, adolescence and adulthood within the main spheres of life - for
example the family, education and work - and examines the issues of self, body, sexuality,
and identity. For each sphere the key questions 'Have women changed? Have men stayed the
same?' are posed, within the context of current sociological debates on social change.
Sara Delamont is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University. Her previous publications
include the highly successful The Sociology of Women: An Introduction (1980), and
Supervising the PhD (1997), co-written with Paul Atkinson and Odette Parry, and also
published by Open University Press.
We,
the People: American Character and Social Change (Contributions in Sociology)
Book by Gordon J. DiRenzo
Both the substance and style of the work should make it an important addition to the
shelves of scholars as well as intelligent layreaders.Library Journal
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. One interesting aspect of the
argument, which extends well beyond the particular situation of housework and gender
politics, is the escalation of demands that accompany some new technologies and the
problems this creates for the idea of technology as labour saving.
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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