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Theories of Social Change: A Critical Appraisal.
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Social ActionSocial IdentitySocial ProcessSocial BehaviorSocial TheorySociologyNomological BiasAggregation EffectsSocial InfluenceOntological BiasApplied Social PsychologyPolitical BehaviorSocial ChangeSocial TransitionCollective BehaviorSocial SciencesSocial Transformation
Foreword. 1. Theories of Social Change. 2. Individual Action, Aggregation Effects and Social Change. 3. The Laws Governing Change: the Nomological Bias. 4. Structures and Change: the Structuralist Bias. 5. The Search for the Prime Mover: the Ontological Bias. 6. A Well--Tempered Determinism. 7. Giving Disorder its Due. Epilogue. Notes. General Index.