Evolution Versus Revolution: The Paradoxes of Social Change

by Melvyn L. Fein

Revolutionary and evolutionary theorists have very different views about change; Fein writes in favour of evolution. He proposes an integrated model of social evolution, one that accounts for the complexity, inconclusiveness, and impediments that characterize social transformations.

This multi-dimensional approach recognizes that change is always saturated in conflict. Major changes are rarely initiated by conscious decisions that are automatically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412857139
• ISBN13: 9781412857130
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"