Social Change and Continuity

2014-10-14 History

Author : Barry Coward
Release : 2014-10-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Social Change and Continuity by : Barry Coward

Download or read book Social Change and Continuity written by Barry Coward. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation and population expansion in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Overall he stresses that social change combined with social continuity to produce a distinctive early modern English society.

Social Change and Cultural Continuity Among Native Nations

2007 Political Science

Author : Duane Champagne
Release : 2007
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Social Change and Cultural Continuity Among Native Nations written by Duane Champagne. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, religious, and environmental perspectives.

Property in Social Continuity

2012-12-11 Law

Author : Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Release : 2012-12-11
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Property in Social Continuity written by Franz von Benda-Beckmann. This book was released on 2012-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism. The author proposes a new anthropological approach to law, property and inheritance. After the description of the Minangkabau socio-political organization and the development of legal and administrative pluralism, three chapters are devoted to property and inheritance proper. First the ideal legal systems are described. Then he illustrates how the Minangkabau actually handle their property and inheritance affairs, and how the various regulating mechanisms have changed through history. Finally the different agents creating and changing legal conceptions are treated in historical perspective. In his conclusions the author shows how the traditional system of common holding and distributing of property by matrilineal descent groups is slowly being undermined through an increasing monetarization and consequent individualization of property relationships which finds its expression in the form of new legislation. This development is reflected in the conceptual system where the formerly predominant diachronic dimension of property relationships is slowly abolished and where property rights are increasingly reified.

Change and Continuity in the Pacific

2018-04-09 Social Science

Author : John Connell
Release : 2018-04-09
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Change and Continuity in the Pacific written by John Connell. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region. The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term research in the islands of the Pacific. During their visits and revisits they have witnessed first-hand the many changes that have occurred in their fieldsites as well as observing elements of continuity. They bring to their accounts a sense of their surprise at some of the unexpected elements of stability and of transformation. The authors take a range of disciplinary approaches, particularly geography and anthropology, and their contributions reflect their deep knowledge of Pacific places, some first visited more than 40 years ago. Many of the chapters focus on aspects of socio-economic change and continuity, while others focus on specific issues such as the impact of both internal and international migration, political and cultural change, technological innovation and the experiences of children and youth. By focusing on both change and continuity this collection of 11 case studies shows the complex relationships between Pacific societies and processes of ‘modernity’ and globalisation. By using a long-term lens on particular places, the authors are able to draw out the subtleties of change and its impacts, while also paying attention to what, in the contemporary Pacific, has been left remarkably unchanged. Filling a gap in the studies of the Pacific region, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of anthropology, development, geography, and Asia-Pacific studies.

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