{"product_id":"social-change-development-and-dependency-9780745607306","title":"Social Change Development and Dependency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes the study of development and social change out of the confines of the Modernization Theory - Dependency Theory debate. The author examines social change against a background of the rise of the West and the global spread of its institutions. Spybey analyzes the development of the nation-state system in the modern world, emphasizing its Western origins. He also traces out the emergence of colonialism, the capitalist world-economy and Western dominance over other parts of the world. \u003cp\u003eThe author goes on to examine these developments after the Second World War, against the background of the Cold War and the end of European colonialism, the reaffirmed of the existence of nation-state system by new global institutions, global military order and capitalist world economy. The First, Second and Third Worlds are placed in their social, political and economic contexts and traced through to the post-Bretton Woods period of oil crises, global recession and new international divisio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a brave attempt at a new kind of textbook on the sociology of development.' \u003ci\u003e Political Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Concepts of Social Change\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Opposing Influences in Sociology:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Materialism and Structural-Functionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Development and its Denial:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernization Theory versus Dependency Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Social Interaction and the Reproduction of Institutions through Time and Space:\u003c\/b\u003e The Theory of Structuration and the Concept of Inter-Societal Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The Rise of Western Civilization\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Development of European Institutions as Western Culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Western Societies as a State System:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of the Nation-State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Colonial Episodes:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Implanting of Western Institutions around the World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Definition of Three 'Worlds' after the Second World War\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Post-War Reconstruction and New Global Organizations:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confirmation of an Inter-Societal System.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Formation of the Soviet Union and the Second World:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState Socialism as an Alternative Pathway of Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. The Identification of the Third World and the Recognition of Dependency.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. The World Towards the End of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Contemporary Western Development:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiberal Democratic Capitalism through Crises but Re-Affirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Development in the East:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapan and the Newly Industrializing Countries of East Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. The Resurgence of Islamism:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Alternative to Western Capitalism or State Socialism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404336505175,"sku":"9780745607306","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745607306.jpg?v=1730486140","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-change-development-and-dependency-9780745607306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}