Social change sources, patterns, and consequences. edited by the Amitai Etzioni and Eva Etzioni.

Includes bibliographical references.

The evolution of societies / Herbert Spencer -- The progress of civilization through three states / Auguste Comte -- The life cycles of cultures / Oswald Spengler -- The nature of the growth of civilizations / Arnold J. Toynbee -- Historical materialism summarized / Karl Marx -- The class struggle / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The role of ideas in history / Max Weber -- The routinization of charisma / Max Weber -- From community to society / Ferdinand Toennies -- A functional theory of change / Talcott Parsons -- Toward a theory of social conflict / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Functional analysis of change / Francesca Cancian -- The sources of societal power / C. Wright Mills -- A neo-evolutionist approach / Julian H. Steward -- Diffusionism / A.L. Kroeber -- The folk-urban continuum / Horace Miner -- The cybernetic analysis of change / Mervyn L. Cadwallader -- Business drive and national achievement / David C. McClelland -- The demographic transition / Kingsley Davis -- The family in a changing society / Ernest W. Burgess -- Change and stratification systems / Bernard Barber -- The varying structure of the ruling class / Gaetano Mosca -- Religious revival in the United States / Will Herberg -- The educational revolution / Peter F. Drucker -- Biographies in popular magazines : from production leaders to consumption idols / Leo Lowenthal -- Toward a theory of modernization / Neil J. Smelser -- The takeoff into self-sustained growth / W.W. Rostow -- Motivational aspects of development / Wilbert E. Moore -- Industrialization, ideologies, and social structure / Reinhard Bendix -- Political development / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Social change in an Indian village / McKim Marriott -- Social change and social character : the role of parental mediation / Alex Inkeles -- Group dynamics and social change / Kurt Lewin -- Biological models and empirical histories of the growth of organizations / Mason Haire -- The race-relations cycle / Robert E. Park -- From "inner-directed" to "other-directed" / David Riesman -- Communism and the west : the sociology of conflict / Talcott Parsons -- Contemporary and prospective social disorganization / Robert E.L. Faris -- The anatomy of revolution : tentative uniformities / Crane Brinton -- The role of the precipitant / R.M. McIver -- Innovation / Horace M. Kallen -- Discovery, invention, and their cultural setting / Ralph Linton -- Social processes in physicians' adoption of a new drug / James Coleman, Herbert Menzel, and Elihu Katz -- The principle of cumulation / Gunnar Myrdal, with Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose -- The hypothesis of cultural lag / William F. Ogburn -- Planning for freedom / Karl Mannheim -- The termination of conflict / Lewis A. Coser -- Essential rules and rules of transformation / Morton A. Kaplan -- The epigenesis of political unification / Amitai Etzioni.