INTRODUCTION
1. Social Change and Modernity
2. Theories of Social Change
3. Theories of Modernity
4. Notes on Tables
References
PART ONE MODERNITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Modernity and Social Movements
Two Interpretations of Contemporary Social Change
Dialectics of Modernity: Reenchantment and Dedifferentiation as Counterprocesses
PART TWO MODERNITY AND INEQUALITY
Modernity and Ascription
Employment, Class, and Mobility: A Critique of Liberal and Marxist Theories of Long -term Change
Social Change in the United States: The System of Equality and Inequality
PART THREE MODERNITY AND GENERAL STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Durkheim's Problem and Differentiation Theory Today
The Infrastructure of Modernity: Indirect Social Relationships, Information Technology, and Social Integration
The Future of Capitalism
Cultural Change and Sociological Theory
PART FOUR EVOLUTIONARY THEMES
The Direction of Evolution
The Temporalization of Social Order: Some Theoretical Remarks on the Change in "Change"
Contradictions and Social Evolution: A Theory of the Social Evolution of Modernity
World Society Versus Niche Societies: Paradoxes of Unidirectional Evolution
PART FIVE INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL THEMES
External and Internal Factors in Theories of Social Change
Globality, Global Culture, and Images of World Order
A Reappraisal of Theories of Social Change and Modernization
NAME INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
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