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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Dimensions of the Debate | |
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| Social change and social theory | |
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| Key issues for theory | |
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| Structural Effects: Adam Smith and the Unintended Consequences of Human Action | |
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| Adam Smith's influence | |
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| Structural individualism | |
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| The division of labour and the market | |
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| Conflict and classes | |
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| The invisible hand and the evolution of commercial society | |
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| Evolutionary and Neo-Evolutionary Theories: Necessity and Possibility | |
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| Evolution and progress | |
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| August Comte: the law of progress | |
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| Herbert Spencer: survival of the fittest | |
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| Some neo-evolutionists | |
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| Sahlins and Service: general adaptive capacity | |
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| Smelser: uneven structural change | |
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| Parsons: structural differentiation | |
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| Rostow: the stages of economic growth | |
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| Theories of Revolutionary Change: Marx and Contradiction | |
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| Marx's legacy | |
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| The intellectual background | |
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| The materialist conception of history | |
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| Base and superstructure | |
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| Contradictions of the capitalist mode of production | |
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| Contradictions of Marxist theory | |
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| Unfulfilled prophecies | |
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| Problems with the past | |
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| System inconsistencies | |
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| Marxist ideology | |
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| Reactionary Theories: The Loss of Community: The Persistence of Elites | |
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| Tonnies: gemeinschaft and gesellschaft | |
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| Conservative romanticism | |
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| Pareto: rational and non-rational action | |
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| The circulation of elites | |
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| Conservative cynicism | |
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| Social Action Theory: Weber | |
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| Weber's methodological individualism | |
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| Ideas and social change | |
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| Power and authority | |
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| Rationalization and the modern world | |
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| Sociological Realism: Durkheim | |
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| Social change and the emergence of individualism | |
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| Pathological forms of the division of labour | |
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| Social facts as things | |
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| Religion and the categories of thought | |
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| Systems Theories: Functional Integration and Global Convergence | |
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| The functional analogy and the interconnectedness of change | |
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| Parsons and the social system | |
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| Dependency theory: Frank and Wallerstein | |
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| Convergence theory: Kerr and Galbraith | |
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| How much more than the sum of its parts? | |
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| Modernity, Postmodernity and Postmodernism | |
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| Modernity, crisis and change | |
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| Jurgen Habermas: the legitimation of capitalism | |
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| Daniel Bell: cultural contradictions | |
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| Anthony Giddens: consequences of modernity | |
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| Postmodernity, postmodernism and after | |
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| Jean-Francois Lyotard: language and paralogy | |
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| Jean Baudrillard: postconsumerism and hyperreality | |
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| Postmodernist theory and continuing change | |
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| Continuing Change and Continuing Theory | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |