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The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change
By Anthony D. Smith
Copyright 1973
210 Pages
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Routledge
210 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
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Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism.
Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with... Read more
1. Functionalism and Social Change 2. The 'neo-revolutionary' revival 3. The Stages of Evolution 4. Modernism and Modernisation 5. Revolution 6. Equilibrium and Social Change 7. Evolution and History
Biography
Anthony D. Smith
