9780485114645 - When History Accelerates: Rapid Social Change, Complexity and Creativity (4 resultados)

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:048511464X.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780485114645.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 325 p : ill ; ports ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized -- SYNCHRONIC SYSTEMS AND TEMPORALITY -- SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- PAUL STIRLING: A PERSONAL SYNTHESIS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach -- THE HUMAN ANIMAL -- DARWINISM AND EVOLUTIONISM -- SOCIOLOGICAL DARWINISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis -- INTRODUCTION -- SYSTEMS, SUBSYSTEMS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- IDENTIFYING KINDS OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- PERCEIVING AND MEASURING RATES OF CHANGE -- SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT RATES OF CHANGE -- DISJUNCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS -- RATES OF CHANGE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- WEAK AND STRONG REPRESENTATIONS -- ARRANGING A MARRIAGE IN URBAN PAKISTAN -- ETHNOGRAPHIC SETTING -- MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND CONTEXT -- CHANGE BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992 -- SPECIFICATIONS, EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Social Creativity -- WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE? -- WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY? -- WHAT ARE THE RAW MATERIALS? -- WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY LIKE? -- REFERENCES -- 6 Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation -- INTRODUCTION -- HONOUR CRIMES -- THE LANGUAGE OF HONOUR -- THE USES OF HISTORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS.THE POLITICS OF FORGETFULNESS -- EDUCATION, WORK AND FAMILY VALUES -- IGOR AND FAMILY TRADITION -- RELIGION -- CONCLUSION: BETWEEN CULTURES, A LIVING HISTORY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid -- A STARTING POINT -- APARTHEID, LAND AND POPULATION -- WHITE AGRICULTURE AT THE END OF APARTHEID -- THE BANTUSTANS -- AGRARIAN REFORM: A POLITICAL VACUUM? -- THE POLICY DEBATE -- DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, A DIFFERENT POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran -- PREAMBLE -- BACKGROUND: THE NOMADS OF IRAN -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOMAD ECONOMY AND SOCIETY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC -- WHO ARE - AND WERE - THE 'NOMADS'? DEFINITION AND REDEFINITION -- TRIBES AND NOMADS -- NOMADS' SELF-DEFINITIONS -- REDEFINING 'SETTLEMENT' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir -- INTRODUCTION -- ISLAMIC LAW, SECULAR LAW AND TRADE -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHAPES THE LOCAL CONTEXT -- AN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION -- LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELITES, AND LEGAL CHANGE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 The New Circle of Equity -- A PENDULUM-SWING THEORY OF KEMALISM -- THE TURKISH WAY TO MODERNITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12 Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia -- INTRODUCTION -- A SUNNI VILLAGE MODEL -- AN ALEVI VILLAGE MODEL -- TARIKAT AND ERIAT -- SOME EXAMPLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13 Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu -- INTRODUCTION -- POWER AND LANGUAGE, GENDER AND LIFE CYCLE -- KNOWLEDGE OF VILLAGE HISTORY -- INSIDER AND OUTSIDER: 'ONE OF US' VERSUS THE GAVUR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 14 Social Standards and Social Thought -- DISTINCTIVE INSIGHTS?.I.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 325 p : ill ; ports ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized -- SYNCHRONIC SYSTEMS AND TEMPORALITY -- SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITY -- PAUL STIRLING: A PERSONAL SYNTHESIS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach -- THE HUMAN ANIMAL -- DARWINISM AND EVOLUTIONISM -- SOCIOLOGICAL DARWINISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis -- INTRODUCTION -- SYSTEMS, SUBSYSTEMS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- IDENTIFYING KINDS OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- PERCEIVING AND MEASURING RATES OF CHANGE -- SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT RATES OF CHANGE -- DISJUNCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS -- RATES OF CHANGE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- WEAK AND STRONG REPRESENTATIONS -- ARRANGING A MARRIAGE IN URBAN PAKISTAN -- ETHNOGRAPHIC SETTING -- MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND CONTEXT -- CHANGE BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992 -- SPECIFICATIONS, EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 Social Creativity -- WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE? -- WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY? -- WHAT ARE THE RAW MATERIALS? -- WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY LIKE? -- REFERENCES -- 6 Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation -- INTRODUCTION -- HONOUR CRIMES -- THE LANGUAGE OF HONOUR -- THE USES OF HISTORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS.THE POLITICS OF FORGETFULNESS -- EDUCATION, WORK AND FAMILY VALUES -- IGOR AND FAMILY TRADITION -- RELIGION -- CONCLUSION: BETWEEN CULTURES, A LIVING HISTORY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid -- A STARTING POINT -- APARTHEID, LAND AND POPULATION -- WHITE AGRICULTURE AT THE END OF APARTHEID -- THE BANTUSTANS -- AGRARIAN REFORM: A POLITICAL VACUUM? -- THE POLICY DEBATE -- DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, A DIFFERENT POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran -- PREAMBLE -- BACKGROUND: THE NOMADS OF IRAN -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOMAD ECONOMY AND SOCIETY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC -- WHO ARE - AND WERE - THE 'NOMADS'? DEFINITION AND REDEFINITION -- TRIBES AND NOMADS -- NOMADS' SELF-DEFINITIONS -- REDEFINING 'SETTLEMENT' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir -- INTRODUCTION -- ISLAMIC LAW, SECULAR LAW AND TRADE -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHAPES THE LOCAL CONTEXT -- AN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION -- LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELITES, AND LEGAL CHANGE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 The New Circle of Equity -- A PENDULUM-SWING THEORY OF KEMALISM -- THE TURKISH WAY TO MODERNITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12 Social Change and Culture: Responses to Modernization in an Alevi Village in Anatolia -- INTRODUCTION -- A SUNNI VILLAGE MODEL -- AN ALEVI VILLAGE MODEL -- TARIKAT AND ERIAT -- SOME EXAMPLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 13 Negotiating Ethnographic Reality: Team Fieldwork in Turkey Emine Onaran Incirlioglu -- INTRODUCTION -- POWER AND LANGUAGE, GENDER AND LIFE CYCLE -- KNOWLEDGE OF VILLAGE HISTORY -- INSIDER AND OUTSIDER: 'ONE OF US' VERSUS THE GAVUR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 14 Social Standards and Social Thought -- DISTINCTIVE INSIGHTS?.I.