Social Forces · 1987 · 180 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesSocial PsychologySociologySocial PhilosophyIndividualismNormative ChangeSocial ChangeTheory Of ChangeAggregation EffectsProcesses Of ChangeSocial Change ModelsSocial Change TheoryStructuralist CriticismStructuralist Interpretation
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.