Introducing Social Change: A Manual for Community Development

Name: Introducing Social Change: A Manual for Community Development
Author: Arensberg, Conrad M.; Niehoff, Arthur H.
ISBN: 9780202010724

Arensberg, Conrad M.; Niehoff, Arthur H.

Language: English

Published by De Gruyter, 1971

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Title: Introducing Social Change: A Manual for Community Development
Author: Arensberg, Conrad M.; Niehoff, Arthur H.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication year: 1971
Condition: good
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0202010724
ISBN 13: 9780202010724
Edition: 2nd Edition

The 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.

Introducing 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 cultural change in its various forms; an introduction to the process of directed change; a discussion of the motivation necessary to bring about change; a treatment of the method of adapting an innovation to existing ideas and customs; the profile of the primary characteristics of most developing nations; the main characteristics and cultural values of America as a sample urban, industrial culture; and field problems of the change agent, and in particular those methods from anthropology that can be modified for use.

Developments in the industrial countries, particularly the United States, have demonstrated the need for this second edition. When the original version was produced, little thought or activity was given to development efforts among ethnic minorities of industrial countries. Development was thought of almost exclusively as an activity relevant to the developing, non-industrial nations. It has become apparent that ethnic groups in industrial nations are also in need of economic development. Government policies, including funding, have been increasingly pointed in this direction.

Conrad M. Arensberg (1910-1997) was professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Culture and Community, The Irish Countryman, and Family and Community in Ireland.

Arthur H. Niehoff was senior scientist in George Washington University and has conducted extensive research in India, Trinidad, and Laos. Some of his books include An Anthropologist under the Bed, Another Side of History, and On Becoming Human: A Journey of 5,000,000 Years Revised.

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-This very readable little book is the first genuine text in the field of directed cultural change.... It is simple in its language, conceptual structure, and organization.- --Charles Erasmus, American Anthropologist -[P]resents the overall frame of reference, beginning with a general introduction to cultural problems, and continuing with a specific analysis of the concept of culture, the nature of unplanned changes, planned change, the characteristics of underdeveloped areas, American cultural values and the necessity of knowing their effect on change agents, and finally, field problems of the innovator.- --Frank W. Young, Administrative Science Quarterly -Introducing Social Change, by Arensberg and Niehoff, will probably be read by more of those who are not trained in the behavioral sciences, because it is relatively short and nontechnical.- --John P. Gillin, Science "This very readable little book is the first genuine text in the field of directed cultural change.... It is simple in its language, conceptual structure, and organization." --Charles Erasmus, American Anthropologist "[P]resents the overall frame of reference, beginning with a general introduction to cultural problems, and continuing with a specific analysis of the concept of culture, the nature of unplanned changes, planned change, the characteristics of underdeveloped areas, American cultural values and the necessity of knowing their effect on change agents, and finally, field problems of the innovator." --Frank W. Young, Administrative Science Quarterly "Introducing Social Change, by Arensberg and Niehoff, will probably be read by more of those who are not trained in the behavioral sciences, because it is relatively short and nontechnical." --John P. Gillin, Science "This very readable little book is the first genuine text in the field of directed cultural change.... It is simple in its language, conceptual structure, and organization." --Charles Erasmus, American Anthropologist "[P]resents the overall frame of reference, beginning with a general introduction to cultural problems, and continuing with a specific analysis of the concept of culture, the nature of unplanned changes, planned change, the characteristics of underdeveloped areas, American cultural values and the necessity of knowing their effect on change agents, and finally, field problems of the innovator." --Frank W. Young, Administrative Science Quarterly "Introducing Social Change, by Arensberg and Niehoff, will probably be read by more of those who are not trained in the behavioral sciences, because it is relatively short and nontechnical." --John P. Gillin, Science

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