1st Edition

Social Change in Industrial Society Twentieth-Century America

By Thomas C. Cochran Copyright 1972
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1972, social change was one of the key issues in the study of Western industrial society: by blending widely accepted social science concepts with profound historical insight, Professor Cochran synthesizes scholarship of the time in a stimulating interpretation of the causes and consequences of social change in the United States and the Western world since 1900. The... Read more

Preface.  1. A Systematic Approach to Change  2. The Inner Revolution  3. The Search for Justification  4. Democracy and Education  5. Communication and Community  6. The Dual Revolution  7. Proprietary and Managerial Enterprise  8. Demographic Forces  9. From Family to Institutional Security  10. Disruptive Change  11. Characteristics of Twentieth-Century Change.  Additional Reading.  Index.

Biography

Thomas C. Cochran (1902–1999) was, at the time of original publication, Benjamin Franklin Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and an eminent American business historian. He was Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, in 1970 and was President of the American Historical Association for 1972. He had published 12 books in this field.