Ways of Social Change

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