Human societies : an introduction to macrosociology
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Human societies : an introduction to macrosociology
McGraw-Hill, c1995
7th ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-506) and indexes
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Description
This text is written for introductory sociology courses and takes a macrosociological, global approach, offering an introduction that is comparative, cross-cultural and historical. It compares societies over time and across environments, emphasizing the dynamics of social change. The book has a strong ecological-evolutionary perspective. It stresses the relationship between social arrangements and environmental and technological contexts. This edition includes a chapter on the successes and failures of Marxist societies as social experiments, and has increased focus on comparisons between industrial and non-industrial societies.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theoretical foundations: the human situation
- human societies as sociocultural systems
- the evolution of human societies
- types of human societies. Part 2 Pre-industrial societies: hunting and gathering societies
- horticultural societies
- agrarian societies
- some evolutionary bypaths and a brief review. Part 3 Industrial societies and industrializing societies: the Industrial Revolution
- industrial societies - technologies and economies, ideologies, polities and the mass media, social stratification, population and kinship
- revolutionary socialist societies
- industrializing societies
- retrospect and prospect.
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