Culture and Social Change

This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogueon the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much aboutnovelty as it is about tradition as much about change as it is about stability. Thisdynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests intergroup dynamicslanguage mass media science community participation art and socialtransitions to capitalism among other contexts. These diverse cases illustrate anumber of key factors that can propel slow-down and retract social change. Anemancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book whichoffers a new explanatory model of human behavior and thought under conditions of institutional and societalchange.