Introducing social change : a manual for community development / Conrad M. Arensberg, Arthur H. Niehoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997.

Contributor:

Niehoff, Arthur H., 1921-2013.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Physical Description:

vi, 263 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : AldineTransaction, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Concept of Culture 12

3 Cultural Change 66

4 The Change Process 82

5 Motivation for Change 110

6 Adaptation Techniques 131

7 Secondary Strategies 161

8 The Underdeveloped Areas 176

9 American Cultural Values 207

10 Field Procedures 232.

Notes:

Originally published: Chicago : Aldine-Atherton, 1971.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780202362786

0202362787

OCLC:

229035641