Nisbet, Robert A.
Metaphor and history : the western idea of social development / Robert A. Nisbet ; with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz - New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c. 2009 - xx, 335 p. ; 25 cm
Originally published under title: Social change and history.
Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex.
The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.
9781412808781
Canvi social
Sociologia històrica
HISTORIA SOCIAL
CAMBIO SOCIAL
DESARROLLO SOCIAL
316.42 301:09:00
Metaphor and history : the western idea of social development / Robert A. Nisbet ; with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz - New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c. 2009 - xx, 335 p. ; 25 cm
Originally published under title: Social change and history.
Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex.
The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.
9781412808781
Canvi social
Sociologia històrica
HISTORIA SOCIAL
CAMBIO SOCIAL
DESARROLLO SOCIAL
316.42 301:09:00