World Societies The Evolution of Human Social Life

This brief introductory text surveys 10,000 years of social evolution, from the earliest preindustrial societies to the contemporary, globalized world. World Societies examines the various forces that have brought about social organization and social change-such as economics, technology, population, and ecology-and also discusses the major theoretical perspectives on social evolution and development.Some of the material in this text has been adapted from Stephen K. Sanderson's Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies.Sanderson, Stephen is the author of 'World Societies The Evolution of Human Social Life', published 2004 under ISBN 9780205359486 and ISBN 0205359485.