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How Societies Change (Sociology for a New Century Series) - Couverture souple

Chirot, Daniel

 
9780803990173: How Societies Change (Sociology for a New Century Series)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803990170 ISBN 13 : 9780803990173
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1994

Synopsis

How do the world's societies differ from each other? What were the reasons for change in the past, and do they help us in predicting change in the future? This stimulating text encourages students to ask these and other questions.

Daniel Chirot explains how states and agriculture combined to create the world's classic civilizations. He shows how the UK, a marginal agrarian civilization on the edge of Europe, produced through the last two sections delineate the chronic unsolved problems of the modern era, develop a simplified model of how societies work and how the study of social change can contribute to the resolution of societies' most important problems.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Chirot is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and of Sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. His most recent book is called Contested Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and Nationalist Conflicts in Today’s World and was recently published by Routledge. He is the author of Modern Tyrants, published by Princeton University Press, and the co-author, with Clark McCauley, of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder, also published by Princeton. He has written several books about global social change and has authored as well as edited other books about economic history, ethnic conflict, and international politics. Chirot has served as a consultant for various foundations and NGOS working in Eastern Europe and West Africa. His research and writing has been helped by grants from, among others, the United States Institute of Peace, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has a BA from Harvard University in Social Studies and a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Inc
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803990170
ISBN 13 
9780803990173
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
153
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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