Human Societies: Introduction to Macrosociology - Hardcover

Lenski, Gerhard; Lenski, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070371814 ISBN 13: 9780070371811

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1987

Synopsis

This text is written for introductory sociology courses and takes a macrosociological, global approach, offering an introduction that is comparative, cross-cultural and historical. It compares societies over time and across environments, emphasizing the dynamics of social change. The book has a strong ecological-evolutionary perspective. It stresses the relationship between social arrangements and environmental and technological contexts. This edition includes a chapter on the successes and failures of Marxist societies as social experiments, and has increased focus on comparisons between industrial and non-industrial societies.

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Review

"'This is a well-written and carefully researched book that never panders to students, but also does not lose them with too much complexity.' Peter Kivisto, Augustana College"

About the Author

Patrick D. Nolan (Ph.D. Temple University, 1978) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. Gerhald Lenski is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Power and Privilege and The Religious Factor. He is a recent recipient of the ASA Distinguished Career Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070371814
• ISBN 13: 9780070371811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 500