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Table of Contents
Introduction
The changing social order
Historical background
Patterns of social change
Cyclic change
One-directional change
Combined patterns of change
Explanations of social change
Natural environment
Demographic processes
Technological innovations
Economic processes
Ideas
Social movements
Political processes
Mechanisms of social change
Mechanisms of one-directional change: accumulation, selection, and differentiation
Mechanisms of curvilinear and cyclic change: saturation and exhaustion
Conflict, competition, and cooperation
Tension and adaptation
Diffusion of innovations
Planning and institutionalization of change
Conclusion
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx.
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, by Karl Kautsky, 1887
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels, 1879.
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim.
Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy
Max Weber
Max Weber, 1918.
Leif Geiges
Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto.
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler, c. 1930–36.
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 183-R06610; photograph, o.Ang.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
, paste medallion by James Tassie, 1787; in the Scottish National...
Courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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