Human Societies: A Short Introduction, Swaan, Abram 9780745625928 New<-

Human Societies\nby Abram de Swaan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Abram de Swaan\nTitle: Human Societies\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social groups, communities and identities\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2001\nISBN-13: 9780745625928\nISBN-10: 0745625924\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences.\nEach chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. The book begins by asking: what do people need from one another; what do they need to survive and how do these needs make them dependent upon others? Subsequent chapters deal with the ties that bind people, the expectations they entertain of .