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3 - How Societies Change

Theories of Transformation

from Part I - Making Sense of Transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2019

Björn-Ola Linnér
Affiliation:
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Victoria Wibeck
Affiliation:
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
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Chapter 3 – How societies change – presents some key examples of how historians, anthropologists, economists, and other academics have tried to come to grips with the agents and drivers of previous societal transformations. We cite examples of how the great Western transformation between 1500 and 1900 has been framed in different ways. Furthermore, we present two analogies of transformations: the abolition of slavery, and the replacement of horse transport in cities with automobile transport. This constitutes the basis for a typology of societal transformations based on the system levels and tempo of transformations.

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Sustainability Transformations
Agents and Drivers across Societies
, pp. 22 - 60
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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