Stephen K. Sanderson

Social Transformations

A General Theory of Historical Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Social Transformations Stephen K. Sanderson develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain the most important evolutionary transformations in human history and prehistory. In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along strikingly similar lines throughout the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 795g
• ISBN-13: 9780847691883
• ISBN-10: 0847691888
• Artikelnr.: 21104079

Autorenporträt

Stephen K. Sanderson is professor of sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Evolutionary Material: A General Theory of Historical Development
Chapter 2 The Neolithic Revolution Chapter 3 The Origin of Civilization and
the State Chapter 4 Agrarian States and their Evolutionary Dynamics Chapter
5 The Capitalist Revolution and the Beginnings of the Modern World Chapter
6 The Evolution of the Modern World, I: The Expanding and Evolving Modern
World-System Chapter 7 The Evolution of the Modern World, II: The Emergence
of the Institutions of Modernity Chapter 8 The Question of Progress Chapter
9 The Evolving Future Chapter 10 Theoretical Reprise