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Raymond Boudon is the author of many other works including The Analysis of Ideology, (Polity Press, 1989).'Ought to do almost all its readers a lot of good. And Boudon and his translator both deserve the reader's gratitude for the clarity and consecutiveness of it all.' <i>New Society</i> <p>'A critical reading of a wide range of texts concerning social change in various historical and cultural settings ...' <i>Contemporary Sociology</i></p> <p>'This is a brave attempt at a new kind of textbook on the sociology of development.' <i>Political Studies Association</i></p> <p>'Boudon's arguments deserve the attention, if not always the assent, of scholars from a wide range of fields.' <i>Stephen Crook, University of Tasmania</i></p>
1. Theories of Social Change.
2. Individual Action, Aggregation Effects and Social Change.
3. The Laws Governing Change: the Nomological Bias.
4. Structures and Change: the Structuralist Bias.
5. The Search for the Prime Mover: the Ontological Bias.
6. A Well-Tempered Determinism.
7. Giving Disorder its Due.
Epilogue.
Notes.
General Index.