The Sociology of Social Change

Part I: Concepts and Categories:.

1. Fundamental Concepts in the Study of Change.

2. Vicissitudes of the Idea of Progress.

3. Temporal Dimension of Society: Social Time.

4. Modalities of Historical Tradition.

5. Modernity and Beyond.

6. Globalization of Human Society.

Part II: Three Grand Visions of History:.

7. Classical Evolutionism.

8. Neo-evolutionism.

9. Theories of Modernization: Old and New.

10. Theories of Historical Cycles.

11. Historical Materialism.

Part III: Alternative Vision: Making History:.

12. Against Developmentalism: Modern Critique.

13. History as a Human Product: Evolving Theory of Agency.

14. New Historical Sociology: Concreteness and Contingenc.

15. Social Becoming: the Essence of Historical Change.

Part IV: Aspects of Social Becoming:.

16. Ideas as Historical Forces.

17. Normative Emergence: Evasions and Innovations.

18. Great Individuals as Agents of Change.

19. Social Movements as Forces of Change.

20. Revolutions: the Peak of Social Change.

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