Book chapter
Contemporary Mechanisms of Social Change
Late Modernity
25 Jan 2014
Abstract
This chapter examines four distinct but interrelated mechanisms of social change operative today: Capitalist relations of competition; information and networks; global warming; and developments in international relations. Although it does not account for them completely, capitalist relations of competition, it is argued, play a large role in the emergence of the other mechanisms. These, however, are not simply effects but, it is shown, effects with their own causal powers for morphogenesis.
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- Title
- Contemporary Mechanisms of Social Change
- Creators
- Douglas V. Porpora - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Late Modernity
- Series
- Social Morphogenesis
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Other Identifier
- 991021863119604721