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008			141203s2012 caub b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2011002696
020			_a9781412992565 (pbk.)
020			_a1412992567 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn701242216
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050	0	0	_aGN358 _b.C45 2012
082	0	0	_a303.4 _bC5419h2 _222
100	1		_aChirot, Daniel. _9210077 _2Local
245	1	0	_aHow societies change _cDaniel Chirot.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aThousand Oaks, Calif. _bSAGE/Pine Forge Press _cc2012.
300			_axii, 165 p. _bmaps _c23 cm.
490	1		_aSociology for a new century series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.
505	0		_a1. 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.
650		0	_aSocial change _2Local _9171740
650		0	_aSocial evolution _9171764 _2Local
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