| Culture and Social Change: Transforming Society Through the Power of Ideas (Hc) Contributor(s): Wagoner, Brady (Editor), Jensen, Eric (Editor), Oldmeadow, Julian A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1617357588 ISBN-13: 9781617357589 Publisher: Information Age Publishing OUR PRICE: $94.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Psychology - Education | Research |
| Dewey: 303.4 |
| LCCN: 2011052476 |
| Series: Advances in Culture Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.49 lbs) 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social transitions to capitalism, among other contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behavior and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change. |