SOCIAL CHANGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOME PROMINENT CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGISTS

This study focuses on contemporary theories explaining social change. The thoughts of the following thirteen sociologists, who have important impact on the issue, were used during the examination of social change. These are Parsons, Sorokin, Merton, Dahrendorf, Bourdieu, Giddens, Smelser, Alexander,...

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Published inThe journal of international social research Vol. 7; no. 34; pp. 628 - 635
Main Authors CAM, Taner, KAYAOGLU, Mustafa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2014
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Baudrillard, Jean
Bauman, Zygmunt
Bourdieu, Pierre
Dahrendorf, Ralf
Habermas, Jurgen
Merton, Robert King
Parsons, Talcott
Social Change
Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovitch
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Summary:This study focuses on contemporary theories explaining social change. The thoughts of the following thirteen sociologists, who have important impact on the issue, were used during the examination of social change. These are Parsons, Sorokin, Merton, Dahrendorf, Bourdieu, Giddens, Smelser, Alexander, Habermas, Beck, Bauman, Cohen, and Baudrillard. From their perspectives, social change was handled and told comprehensively in the study. Only primary sources belonging those thirteen contemporary sociologists were used in this work. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1307-9581
1307-9581