In the IST and the third chapter, I look at the forms of social change under the following topics: theories of social evolution, the course of long-term evolution, social evolutionism and historical sociology, revolutions and breaks the state, social movements, the development of modern world-system and the institutions of modernity, globalization and economic development, and late modernity and postmodernity.
Social Systems
Social evolution is a process of social change that has a kind of directional pattern. In the second half of the nineteenth century produced many theoretical developments in sociology and anthropology, as Herbert Spencer, Lewis Henry Morgan, Edward Burnett Tylor, ...