CONTENTS List ot Boxes, Figures, and Tables xiii Preface xv PART I The Study of Change 1 1 The Social Scientific Perspective 3 2 Social and Cultural Evolution 31 PART II The Components of Change 55 3 Population Growth and Demographic Transition 57 4 The Heritage and Dynamics of Culture 84 5 Social Structures, Systems, and Processes 106 PART III The Engines of Change 133 6 Social Movements: Concepts and Principles 137 7 Movements and Revolutions in Context 159 8 The Process of Technological Innovation 194 PART IV Change at the Macrolevel 217 9 From Gemeinschaft to Geselhchaft: The Urbanization of the Human Population 219 10 A World Divided 247 11 The Market, Capitalism, and Socialism 275 PART V Planned Change: Making Tomorrow's Society 307 12 The Paradoxes of Development 309 13 Democratic Planning and Applied Sociology 331 14 The Political Economy of Globalization 346 Notes 367 References 385 Index 423