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Key Features:
- Introduces students to debates about
social change
- Presents an original and in depth
interpretation of social change
- Includes readings that present a wide
range of international case studies
- Develops students' skills of textual
analysis
- Contains numerous activities, readings
and illustrations to encourage students to think laterally
around the subject area
- Throughout the book, key terms and
names are highlighted to aid study
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Why will students engage with this book?
Each chapter of Social Change is written by an author
well known in their field and supported by readings that present
a wide range of international case studies. These readings encourage
students to engage with social and cultural documents as evidence
of social change, developing their critical and analytical skills
Why will academics enjoy working with
this book?
The textbook introduces debates about the nature and meaning
of social change. The authors offer a new way of thinking about
the processes of change, reconsidering the roles played by time
and space. The particular changes explored range from radical transitions
from one kind of society to another, to less dramatic shifts in
social interaction and social organisation.
The text is thoroughly up-to-date, covering
in detail the transformations in social relations associated with
post-colonialism, the information society, city life, new communication
forms, intimacy and governing the self.
Each chapter is accompanied by a set of
extracts from key, previously published, readings that are relevant
to the chapter topic. At the end of the book you will also find
the following set of 'generic' readings on issues of social change:
- Map resource: Berlin: a history in
maps, 1730 - 2000
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:
The German Ideology (1845/6)
- Michel Foucault: The body of the
condemned (1975)
- Avtar Brah: Situated identities /
disasporic transcriptions (1996)
- Donna J. Haraway: Syntactics: the
grammar of feminism and technoscience (1997)
- George McKay: The culture(s) of resistance
(1996)
These reading have been selected for their
broader relevance to the overall themes of the book, exemplifying
both historically important writing as well as current approaches.
Who will benefit from this book?
This book will engage with undergraduate students studying the
sociology of social change.
Publication details:
| Publication date: |
March 2002 |
| Details: |
360 pages 246 x 189 mm / 7.5 x 9.75 in |
| Paperback: |
9780631233121 £15.99 / $39.95 |
| Hardback: |
9780631233114 £55.00 / $74.95 |
Desk Copies
If you would like to receive a complimentary examination copy
of the book, and teach a relevant course with over 12 students,
simply send an email to Louise
Cooper .
Please state the book title, your name,
address and your course details, and we would be delighted to send
you a copy.
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