Title: Cultural transformations and globalization : theory, development, and social change /
Authors: Ervin, Alexander M.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Social evolution.; Culture diffusion.; Culture and globalization.
Contents: Chapter One. Introduction: The Constant River of Change -- Chapter Two. Cultural Materialism and Political Ecology -- Chapter Three. Process and Agency -- Chapter Four. World Systems Approaches to Cultural Change -- Chapter Five. Modernity, Modernization, and Development -- Chapter Six. Modernity, Modernization, and Development -- Chapter Seven. Globalization -- Chapter Eight. Networks, Social Systems, and Change -- Chapter Nine. Social Movements and Collective Agency -- Chapter Ten. Complexity and Emergence---Introduced -- Chapter Eleven. Complexity and Emergence in Sociology and Anthropology -- Chapter Twelve. Applied Anthropology and Change -- Chapter Thirteen. Summary, Conclusions, and Hints of Synthesis.