商品簡介
Garth Massey discusses the main narrative of contemporary social change and teaches the critical thinking skills needed to make sense of the changing world in the 21st Century in Ways of Social Change, Second Edition. It is organized around five major drivers of social change: science and technology, social movements, corporate power, government actions, and war. In contrast to other titles, which emphasize theories of social change, this book focuses more on describing and analyzing changes that are taking place in global society.
The Second Edition features several exciting changes: the overall length of the books has been reduced by 15% while many of the boxes in Ch. 2 about research methodologies have been cut back, eliminated, or integrated back into the main narrative. The book contains new or updated material on income distribution, scientific and technological innovations, and the power of large coroporations including a new section in the last chapter called Visions of the Future, Predictions, and the Limits of Predition and new discussion questions and activities for all chapters.
