02621nam a2200289Ia 4500 329540 20180724022447.0 141203s2012 caub b 001 0 eng 2011002696 9781412992565 (pbk.) 1412992567 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn701242216 DLC DLC YDX YDXCP BWX OMB CDX DLC pcc GN358 .C45 2012 303.4 C5419h2 22 Chirot, Daniel. 210077 Local How societies change Daniel Chirot. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE/Pine Forge Press c2012. xii, 165 p. maps 23 cm. Sociology for a new century series Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index. 1. Evolution and early human societies : Physical and cultural evolution: differences and similarities ; Causes of change in early societies ; From collecting, hunting, and fishing to agriculture -- Agrarian societies : The invention of the state ; Class status, and force: increasing inequality and making it hereditary ; Nomads, migrants, and other raiders ; Great cultures: the moral basis of agrarian civilizations ; The problem of administration and the cycle of political decay and reconstruction ; The conservatism of village life ; The demographic cycle in agrarian societies ; The potential for rapid innovation: the importance of peripheries ; The limits of analogy: societies are not species, and cultural evolution is not biological -- The rise of the West : Europe's ecological advantages ; Religious discordance and political stalemate: the basis for western rationalization ; Science, knowledge, and exploration in China and Western Europe ; The growth of European empires and the transformation of the economy ; Overcoming the agrarian population cycle ; The invention of nationalism and its consequences ; The legitimation of commerce: the ideological basis of the Industrial Revolution -- The Modern era : Industrial cycles ; Internal and international social consequences of modernization and industrial cycles ; Economic class and political power in modern societies ; Political ideologies and protests: two centuries of revolutions ; The unending effort to adapt to modernity ; Ecological pressures persist -- Toward a theory of social change : Why change occurs ; The new or the old?: The paradox of institutional resistance to change ; Freedom or control?: The dilemma of the modern era. Social change Local 171740 Social evolution 171764 Local 246401 246401 0 0 ddc 0 303_400000000000000_C5419H2 0 evl 189396 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Amazon 30.22 529787 0 303.4 C5419h2 80000002529272 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:329540 z:Presup. 2014-15 6