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- catalog abstract "Preface: The primary purpose of this book is to set forth the essential sources and contests of the Western idea of social development. The book is in large part historical, in smaller part analytical and critical. In the rather long final chapter I explore some of the difficulties which seem to me to arise in the study of social change when this study is made subject to the fundamental concepts of developmentalism.".
- catalog alternative "Aspects of the Western theory of development".
- catalog contributor b4345041.
- catalog created "1969.".
- catalog date "1969".
- catalog date "1969.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1969.".
- catalog description "Bibliographical references included in "Notes and references" (p. 305-328)".
- catalog description "Introduction -- 1: History and metaphor -- 2: Metaphor of growth -- Part 1: Civilization As Growth In Time: The Biography Of A Metaphor -- 1: Greeks -- 1: Being as becoming -- 2: Cycles of genesis and decay -- 3: Progress and degeneration -- 2: Christians -- 1: Augustinian metaphor -- 2: Repudiation of cycles -- 3: Historical necessity -- 4: Two cities: conflict and resolution -- 5: Progress and degeneration -- 3: Moderns -- 1: Metaphor as progress -- 2: Expansion of metaphor -- 3: Progress and degeneration -- Part 2: Theory Of Social Development -- 4: Theory of natural history -- 1: Nature versus convention --2: Natural versus conventional history -- 5: Theory of social evolution -- 1: Sources and contexts -- 2: Elements of social evolution -- 6: Comparative method -- 1: Ethnocentric foundations -- 2: historical roots -- 3: Three series -- Part 3: Persistence And Change -- 7: Persistence of metaphor -- 1: Cycle, epic, and progress -- 2: Neo-evolutionism -- 8: Reflections on a metaphor -- 1: Uses of Metaphor -- 2: Abuses of metaphor -- 3: Irrelevance of metaphor -- Notes and references -- Index.".
- catalog description "Preface: The primary purpose of this book is to set forth the essential sources and contests of the Western idea of social development. The book is in large part historical, in smaller part analytical and critical. In the rather long final chapter I explore some of the difficulties which seem to me to arise in the study of social change when this study is made subject to the fundamental concepts of developmentalism.".
- catalog extent "x, 335 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Social change and history.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Social change and history.".
- catalog issued "1969".
- catalog issued "1969.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Social change and history.".
- catalog subject "301.2/4/09".
- catalog subject "HM101 .N575".
- catalog subject "Historical sociology.".
- catalog subject "Social change.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- 1: History and metaphor -- 2: Metaphor of growth -- Part 1: Civilization As Growth In Time: The Biography Of A Metaphor -- 1: Greeks -- 1: Being as becoming -- 2: Cycles of genesis and decay -- 3: Progress and degeneration -- 2: Christians -- 1: Augustinian metaphor -- 2: Repudiation of cycles -- 3: Historical necessity -- 4: Two cities: conflict and resolution -- 5: Progress and degeneration -- 3: Moderns -- 1: Metaphor as progress -- 2: Expansion of metaphor -- 3: Progress and degeneration -- Part 2: Theory Of Social Development -- 4: Theory of natural history -- 1: Nature versus convention --2: Natural versus conventional history -- 5: Theory of social evolution -- 1: Sources and contexts -- 2: Elements of social evolution -- 6: Comparative method -- 1: Ethnocentric foundations -- 2: historical roots -- 3: Three series -- Part 3: Persistence And Change -- 7: Persistence of metaphor -- 1: Cycle, epic, and progress -- 2: Neo-evolutionism -- 8: Reflections on a metaphor -- 1: Uses of Metaphor -- 2: Abuses of metaphor -- 3: Irrelevance of metaphor -- Notes and references -- Index.".
- catalog title "Aspects of the Western theory of development".
- catalog title "Social change and history; aspects of the Western theory of development [by] Robert A. Nisbet.".
- catalog type "text".