World Societies: The Evolution Of Human Social Life - Softcover

Sanderson, Stephen K.; Alderson, Arthur S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205359485 ISBN 13: 9780205359486

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2004

Synopsis

This new book examines the entire range of human societies, past and present, and the various forces that brought about social evolution. It focuses on the roles of economics, technology, population, and ecology in the long-term evolution of human societies; and provides detailed coverage of the rise of capitalism, modern industrial societies, and globalization.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This brief introductory text surveys 10,000 years of social evolution, from the earliest preindustrial societies to the contemporary, globalized world. World Societies examines the various forces that have brought about social organization and social change—such as economics, technology, population, and ecology—and also discusses the major theoretical perspectives on social evolution and development.

Some of the material in this text has been adapted from Stephen K. Sanderson's Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies.

About the Author:

Stephen K. Sanderson is currently a visiting professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, where he specializes in comparative-historical sociology, sociological theory, and evolutionary sociology. He is the author or editor of ten books in sixteen editions, among them "Evolutionism and Its Critics: Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society "(Paradigm, 2007) and "Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Social and Political Contention" (2nd ed., Paradigm, 2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0205359485
• ISBN 13: 9780205359486
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304