Social and cultural change : social science for a dynamic world

The social scientific perspective -- Social and cultural evolution -- Population growth and demographic transition -- The heritage and dynamics of culture -- Social structures, systems, and processes -- Social movements : concepts and principles -- Movements and revolutions in context -- The process of technological innovation -- From Gemeinschaft to Gessellschaft : the urbanization of the human population -- A world divided -- The market, capitalism, and socialism -- Representative government and the modern nation-state -- The paradoxes of development -- Democratic planning and applied sociology -- The political economy of globalization