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Social change and modernity / edited by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser.

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Social change and modernity / edited by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Haferkamp, Hans, 1939-
  • Smelser, Neil J.
Description
vi, 444 p. ; ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Social change
  • Social history
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Social Change
  • Social Environment
  • Social Conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Modernity and social movements / Ron Eyerman -- Two interpretations of contemporary social change / Alain Touraine -- Dialectics of modernity : reenchantment and dedifferentiation as counterprocesses / Edward A. Tiryakian -- Modernity and ascription / Hans Haferkamp -- Employment, class, and mobility : a critique of liberal and Marxist theories of long-term change / John H. Goldthorpe -- Social change in the United States : the system of equality and inequality / Richard Münch -- Durkheim's problem and differentiation theory today / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The infrastructure of modernity : indirect social relationships, information technology, and social integration / Craig Calhoun -- The future of capitalism / Johannes Berger.
  • Cultural change and sociological theory / Robert Wuthnow -- The direction of evolution / Niklas Luhmann -- The temporalization of social order : some theoretical remarks on the change in "change" / Bernard Giesen -- Contradictions and social evolution : a theory of the social evolution of modernity / Klaus Eder -- World society versus niche societies : paradoxes of unidirectional evolution / Karl Otto Hondrich -- External and internal factors in theories of social change / Neil J. Smelser -- Globality, global culture, and images of world order / Roland Robertson -- A reappraisal of theories of social change and modernization / S.N. Eisenstadt.
ISBN
  • 0520065549 (alk. paper)
  • 0520068289 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^91018642^
OCLC
  • 23769214
  • SCSB-14234237
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Harvard Library