Introducing Social Change - 9781138526341

Name: Introducing Social Change - 9781138526341
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Introducing Social ChangeA Manual for Community Development\nAuthor(s): Conrad M. Arensberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138526341, 978-1138526341\nSynopsis\nThe development of industry in Europe and the United States has resulted in great marvels of production. However, non-Western nations, with a few exceptions, have not yet shared fully in this productivity, despite the desires of their leaders to do so. Also, in the United States, and in other industrial nations, there are sizeable minority groups which have not been fully assimilated into the productive pattern of the majority. Most live as poverty enclaves within the greater society. This socioeconomic imbalance has contributed to unrest in both the agrarian and industrial nations.\n\nIntroducing Social Change deals with numerous topics of social change: cultural problems of change in general; a description of the concept of culture; a discussion of cul.