Unit 23: Social Change & Global Perspective

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of the various types of change, as well as the theories of social change, the changes associated with modernization, and theories of globalization from the perspective of how they explain social change.
 


 

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    Glossary:
    core nations cultural diffusion cyclical change theory
    dependency theory evolutionary social theory gemeinschaft
    gesellschaft globalization modernization
    ecological  evolutionism peripheral nations revolution
    social change unidimensional evolutionism world-systems theory