Stephen K. Sanderson

Social Transformations (eBook, PDF)

A General Theory of Historical Development

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development 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. The new discussion places the theoretical arguments of Social Transformations in the context of an even more comprehensive theory of human social behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216230496
• Artikelnr.: 75140909

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