دانلود کتاب A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume 2

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Frontmatter......Page 1
A treatise on social theory......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
What are societies made of?......Page 15
The dimensions of social structure......Page 26
Roles and systacts......Page 34
Mobility of persons and roles......Page 41
Competitive selection and social evolution......Page 51
Inter-societal comparisons and principles of taxonomy......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 74
The range of variation......Page 75
Standard roles and routine careers......Page 84
Functional differentiation and the accretion of power......Page 90
Ranks, distances and barriers......Page 100
Systactic identity and collective consciousness......Page 111
Pervasive roles and central institutions......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 135
Stability and dissent......Page 137
Reproduction, polarization and compression......Page 152
Systactic patterns and modes of the distribution of power......Page 162
Contradictions and constraints......Page 186
Functional alternatives (1)......Page 196
Functional alternatives (2)......Page 222
Functional alternatives (3)......Page 258
Inter-societal relations......Page 280
Conclusion......Page 297
Processes of change......Page 299
Regressions and catastrophes......Page 324
Dead-ends and turning-points......Page 334
Rebellions, reforms and revolutions......Page 354
Test cases (1)......Page 381
Test cases (2)......Page 400
Test cases (3)......Page 425
Hegemony and decline......Page 447
Conclusion......Page 462
List of references......Page 465
Index......Page 495