Ways of Social Change: Making Sense of Modern Times

Massey, Garth M. (Morgan)

ISBN 10: 1412979870 / ISBN 13: 9781412979870

Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

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Riassunto:

This text is accessible and informative, acquainting students in the narratives of contemporary social change and teaching the critical thinking skills needed to make sense of the changing world of the 21st century. The question of the book is not: why does social change happen? Rather, it examines five forces that are, and will continue to be, major drivers of social change: science and technology, social movements, corporate power, government actions, and war.

The author unpacks key recent events in history, such as the election of Barak Obama and the uprisings in Egypt that forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down. Not since the 1960s has there been such a time when students wanted and needed to understand social change. This text takes this desire for social change into the realm of social science where clarification, understanding, inquiry and involvement can help provide for both informed opinions and a path to effective engagement.

Informazioni sull'autore: Garth Massey (PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington) is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Wyoming where he was Director of International Studies and Professor of Sociology. He authored Subsistence and Change: Lessons of Agropastoralism in Somalia (Westview) and edits Readings for Sociology (WW Norton). He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Garth Massey joined the Sociology faculty at the University of Wyoming in 1974. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania (1979-80), the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia (1986-88), the University of Gödöllö in Hungary (1993-4), Flinders University in Australia (2002), Hebrew University in Israel (2003) and taught in the UW's London Semester (1998). His international experience is reflected in both his teaching and research interests. He was Director of the International Studies Program at the University of Wyoming from 1998 to 2008. International and comparative research have occupied Dr. Massey for the past several years. After teaching and doing research in Tanzania and Somalia, he shifted his research to Yugoslavia and Hungary, and most recently to Israel, working first on issues of rural transformation and more recently ethnic conflict. Dr. Massey worked on problems confronting energy-impacted communities, welfare policies, and the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. His research has been published in specialty journals as well as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and The American Sociological Review. Dr. Masseys courses range from the introductory level to graduate seminars. He has taught a range of social theory courses and in the areas of social change and political economy. His courses included Sociology of Work, Social Inequality, International Development, and Ethnic Conflict.

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Titolo: Ways of Social Change: Making Sense of ...
Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good