Cultural transformations and globalization : theory, development, and social change

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ervin, Alexander M. [ (Alexander MacKay)] (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Paradigm Publishers , c2015
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: the constant river of change
  • 2. Cultural materialism and political ecology
  • 3. Process and agency
  • 4. World systems approaches to cultural change
  • 5. Modernity, modernization, and development
  • 6. Modernity, modernization, and development
  • 7. Globalization
  • 8. Networks, social systems, and change
  • 9. Social movements and collective agency
  • 10. Complexity and emergence
  • 11. Complexity and emergence in sociology and anthropology
  • 12. Applied anthropology and change
  • 13. Summary, conclusion, and hints of synthesis