Comparative Social Dynamics - 9780367014896

Taylor & Francis

The authors, ranking scholars in their fields, provide fresh and important insights to the study of topics such as the interface of anthropological and sociological theory, the dynamics of Latin American and Asian societies, and social change in Israel and in developing countries.  > These original articles relate to major themes in the comparative study of the dynamics of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. The authors, ranking scholars in their fields, provide fresh and important insights to the study of topics such as the interface of anthropological and sociological theory, the dynamics of Latin Americ > Preface -- S. N. Eisenstadt: Some Personal Observations -- Process and Change in Tribal and Historical Societies -- A Generation After \""From Generation to Generation\"": Coevals and Competitors in \""Cattle Complex\"" Societies -- The Ecological Dynamics of Empires: Seventeenth-Century Crises in Ottoman Turkey and Ming China -- Tradition and Transfos