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Social Transformations : a General Theory of Historical Development.

In Social Transformations 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 human...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sanderson, Stephen K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Expanded Edition -- 1 Evolutionary Materialism: A General Theory of Historical Development -- The Theoretical Strategy of Evolutionary Materialism -- Evolutionary Materialism and World History -- 2 The Neolithic Revolution -- Hunter-Gatherer Societies Before 10,000 BP -- The Worldwide Transition to Agriculture -- Explaining the Worldwide Transition to Agriculture -- Conclusions -- 3 The Origin of Civilization and the State -- A Typology of Sociopolitical Evolution -- The Origin of Civilization and the State as a Process of Parallel Evolution -- Explaining the Origin of Civilization and the State -- The Pace of State Evolution -- Coda: Reconstructing Social Evolution Using the Comparative Method -- 4 Agrarian States and their Evolutionary Dynamics -- Social Change in Agrarian States -- Agrarian States as Pre capitalist World-Systems -- Social Devolution and the Collapse of Agrarian States -- Conclusion: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Agrarian States -- 5 The Capitalist Revolution and the Beginnings of the Modern World -- Feudalism in World History -- The Nature of Capitalism -- The Origins of European Capitalism -- The Japanese Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism -- Theories ·of the Transition to Capitalism -- A New Interpretation -- 6 The Evolution of the Modern World, I: The Expanding and Evolving Modern World-System -- The Structure and Dynamics of the Modern World-System -- The Evolution of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1500-1995 -- Hegemony in the World-Economy -- Development and Underdevelopment in the World-System -- Some Test Cases -- The Interstate System: The Political Side of the Modern World-System -- 7 The Evolution of the Modern World, II: The Emergence of the Institutions of Modernity -- Industrialization in the West and Japan. 
505 8 |a The Rise and Demise of State Socialism -- Stratification and Mobility in the Age of Modernity -- The Evolution of the Modern State -- The Emergence and Expansion of Mass Education -- The Scientific Revolution and the Development of Modern Science -- The Emergence of a Postindustrial Society? -- 8 The Question of Progress -- Before the Rise of Modern Capitalism -- After the Rise of Modern Capitalism -- Conclusions -- 9 The Evolving Future -- A Futuristic Scenario: W. Warren Wagar -- The Challenges: Population Growth and Ecological Degradation -- The Challenges: Nuclear War -- The Challenges: A World State -- The Challenges: Capitalism, Socialism, or Barbarism? -- The Crisis and Collapse of Capitalist-Sensate Culture -- 10 Theoretical Reprise -- Afterword to the Expanded Edition: Biological Constraints on Social Evolution -- References -- Index -- About the Author. 
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