Ways of social change : making sense of modern times /: making sense of modern times. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Garth Massey.
• Authors: Massey, Garth
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Personal Experience of Social Change; A Twentieth-Century Life: Iris Summers; Personal Change and Social Change; The Rise of Civilization and the Two Master Trends in Modern Times; Iris Summers' Time and Place in Global Context; The More Things Change; Drivers of Social Change; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 2. Recognizing Social Change; Ways of Recognizing Social Change; Inquiry Into Social Change; Generations and Social Change; Cohort, Age, and Period Effects of Social Change; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 3. Understanding and Explaining Social Change; First Steps in Understanding Change; Society as an Evolving System; Society as the Site of Conflict, Power, and the Resolution of Contraditions; Making Sense of Modern Times; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 4. Technology, Science, and Innovation: The Social Consequences of New Knowledge and New Ways to Do Things; The Technology of Literacy; Changing Technology and Centuries of Change; Technology as an Agent of Social Change; The Science-Technology Nexus; Innovation and Social Change; Technology and the Question of Western Expansion; Technology and Social Change in the Periphery; Resistance to Technology or Resistance to Change?; Technology Transfer: The Global Spread of Technology; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 5. Social Movements: Social Change Through Contention; Politics by Other Means; What Is a Social Movement?; Linking Social Movements to Social Change; Social Movements and Resistance to Social Change; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 6. War, Revolution, and Social Change: Political Violence and Structured Coercion; War as Coercive Politics; Not All Wars Are the Same; War as an Instrument of Social Change; Revolution and Social Transformation; War, Revolution, and Resistance to Social Change; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 7. Corporations in the Modern Era: The Commercial Transformation of Material Life and Culture; Large Corporations in Modern Times; The Corporation's History of Transformation; How Large Corporations Direct Social Change; Large Corporations and Resistance to Social Change; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 8. The State and Social Change: The Uses of Public Resources for the Common Good; Strong States and Social Change; Public Health: Reducing Disease and Accidental Death as a Public Good; National Progress Through the Control of Nature; The Judicial Road to Civil Rights; State-Driven Social Change in Modern China; Resistance to State-Directed Social Change; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; Chapter 9. Making Social Change: Engaging a Desire for Social Change; Three Contrasting Visions; The Future – Predictable and Otherwise; Using Your Human Agency; Vocations of Social Change; Agency and Ethical Responsibility; Activism as a Part of Life; Social Change Happens; Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study; References; Name Index; Subject Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Subjects: 303.4; Social change; Technological innovations -- Social aspects; Critical thinking
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506306643; 1506306640
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