Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change

Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change
Author: Faruk Birtek
Publisher: Vilnius Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 6099602046

This book is about constructing a theory of historical change. It develops a methodology for comparative historical sociology. As much as the god-loving, hard-working, entrepreneurial, penny pinching, in short, "expansive" impulse of the yeomen, it was the lack of resilience of society, the so-called feudal society that led to the enclosures, the parliament and eventual pluralism in England. In contrast, the French village was strongly shaped by the feudal relations which secured the peasant resilience in the face of the commercial impulses of the new capitalistic classes. The state could play the major roles in the opening new societal avenues and remedying the stillness of the new economic classes in the countryside. Our model suggests that the transitional stage in a process of transformation is governed by a see-saw between the organizational capacity of the new interests to expand and the resilience of the pre-existing institutions in resistance. Central to our model is the tenets of organizational sociology.

Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change

Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change
Author: Faruk Birtek
Publisher: Vilnius Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 6099602038

This book is about constructing a theory of historical change. It develops a methodology for comparative historical sociology. As much as the god-loving, hard-working, entrepreneurial, penny pinching, in short, "expansive" impulse of the yeomen, it was the lack of resilience of society, the so-called feudal society that led to the enclosures, the parliament and eventual pluralism in England. In contrast, the French village was strongly shaped by the feudal relations which secured the peasant resilience in the face of the commercial impulses of the new capitalistic classes. The state could play the major roles in the opening new societal avenues and remedying the stillness of the new economic classes in the countryside. Our model suggests that the transitional stage in a process of transformation is governed by a see-saw between the organizational capacity of the new interests to expand and the resilience of the pre-existing institutions in resistance. Central to our model is the tenets of organizational sociology.

Families, History And Social Change

Families, History And Social Change
Author: Tamara K Hareven
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The Case of Zhenhua and Shuqin -- The Case of Fuchang and Liyin -- Part 4 Broader Perspectives -- 13 Family Change and Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship -- Introduction -- Myths About the Past -- The Malleable Household -- Interdependence Among Kin -- Privacy and the Family's Retreat from the Community -- The Ideology of Domesticity and Women's Work -- Changes in the Timing of Life Transitions -- Reducing the Misfit -- 14 What Difference Does It Make? -- Reweaving the Tapestry -- Time and Motion -- Reexamining Social Change -- Proto-Industrializatiori -- Family Strategies -- The Role of Human Agency -- The Subjective Reconstruction of Past Lives -- The Life Course and the Rediscovery of Complexity -- Looking to the Future -- Cross-Cultural Dimensions -- Notes -- References -- Credits -- Index

Sociology of Families

Sociology of Families
Author: Teresa Ciabattari
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483379035

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. The family patterns seen in recent decades—cohabitation, divorce, nonmarital childbearing, same-sex marriage and childrearing—can seem like radical changes from the past. But upon closer examination, many are consistent with broader trends that have been going on for centuries. Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity considers this tension between change and continuity, situating families in a social, historical, and economic context, and emphasizing how these contexts create family diversity and inequality. By incorporating diverse family structures into each chapter, author Teresa Ciabattari has written a text that challenges idealized assumptions about how families should be, and instead explores the complex realities of how families actually are. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward

Making Societies

Making Societies
Author: William G. Roy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452251827

This book shows how the social constructions of time, space, race, gender and class intersect with each other to produce particular social phenomena that are enduring and significant for our society. Leading the reader through examples drawn from around the world, the author shows how these categories are social constructions; historically formed, ideologically loaded, and subject to change.

Social Change

Social Change
Author: Wilbert E. Moore
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1974
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

How Societies Change

How Societies Change
Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2011-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412992567

An exploration of how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, despite their great success, have created a new set of recurring and unsolved problems which will serve as a major impetus for further social change.

Change and Stability

Change and Stability
Author: Melvin L. Kohn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131726262X

In societies that experience rapid social transformation, does an individual's social position have a major influence on their personality? Exploring this, and related questions, Melvin Kohn presents a detailed overview of how social structure relates to personality in a variety of different countries in vastly different political and social contexts. Case studies include the US, communist Poland, Japan, and Poland and the Ukraine during their transition to capitalism.