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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Personal Experience of Social Change | |
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| A Twentieth-Century Life: Iris Summers | |
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| From Farm to Factory | |
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| Extending the Reach | |
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| Generations of Stability and Change | |
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| Decades of Social Movements | |
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| The Means to Being Modern | |
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| A Woman in a Changing Society | |
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| The Changing World of Work | |
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| The Personal Challenge of Social Change | |
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| Not Every Person's Story: Capturing Social Change in Personal Experience | |
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| Defining and Understanding Social Change | |
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| A Very Brief History of Human Societies (With Apologies to Mel Brooks) | |
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| Before the Last Ice Age | |
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| World Population Growth | |
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| Urbanization | |
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| New Forms of Production and the Development of Capitalism | |
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| Dominance of the National State | |
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| Iris Summers' Time and Place in Global Context | |
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| A More Crowded Continent, a More Crowded World | |
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| Do Population Dynamics Drive Social Change? | |
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| The More Things Change … | |
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| Drivers of Social Change | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| Recognizing Social Change | |
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| Ways of Recognizing Social Change | |
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| Science as a Special Approach to Inquiry | |
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| How Is Research Done? | |
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| Asking Good Questions | |
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| Concepts and Variable Language | |
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| From Questions to Hypotheses | |
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| Tracing and Untangling Causality | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Sampling and Drawing Inferences | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency and Association | |
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| Analyzing Information | |
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| The Problem of Recall | |
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| Drawing Conclusions From Empirical Data | |
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| Research Ethics and a Cautionary Tale | |
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| Social Policy and Social Change | |
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| Generations and Social Change | |
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| The Concept of Generations | |
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| Generations in the Past Century | |
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| Birth Cohorts and Social Change | |
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| Cohort, Age, and Period Effects on Social Change | |
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| Cohort Effects | |
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| Age Effects | |
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| Period Effects | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| Understanding and Explaining Social Change | |
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| The Ubiquity of Change | |
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| Individuals, Groups, Social Structure, and Agency | |
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| The Enigma of Time | |
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| Images of Time | |
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| Measuring Time | |
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| Social Time | |
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| Making Sense of Large-Scale Social Change | |
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| Theory as a Narrative | |
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| Social History and Social Change | |
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| A Way of Understanding or Ways of Understanding? | |
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| Society as an Evolving System | |
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| Evolutionary Change in Spencer, Veblen, and Sorokin | |
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| Society as a Site of Conflict, Power, and the Resolution of Contradictions | |
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| Conflict Perspectives of Karl Marx, C. Wright Mills, and Georg Simmel | |
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| Understanding Social Change: Two Explanations of a War | |
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| The Initial Explanation: Ethnic Hatred | |
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| A Better Explanation: Elite Manipulation | |
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| Making Sense of Modern Times | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| Technology, Science, and Innovation: The Social Consequences of New Knowledge and New Ways to Do Things | |
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| The Technology of Literacy | |
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| A World Without Writing | |
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| Literacy and Power | |
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| Literacy and Social Change | |
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| Understanding Technology as an Agent of Social Change | |
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| From Stirrups to Cities | |
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| The Twentieth Century, an Age of Technological Change | |
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| A Changing Social Reality | |
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| Technology as Device, Activity, and Social Organization | |
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| What Is Technology? | |
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| Technological Change and Social Change | |
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| Instrumental and Technical Rationality | |
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| Technology and Science | |
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| Pure and Applied Research | |
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| State Funding for Science | |
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| The Science-Practice-Technology Nexus | |
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| Innovation and Social Change | |
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| Diffusion of Innovations | |
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| Technology and Western "Exceptionalism" | |
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| Why the West? | |
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| Max Weber on the Morality of Work | |
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| Technology and Economic Growth | |
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| Technology and Social Change in the Periphery | |
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| Imperialism and the Quest for Colonies | |
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| Resistance to Technology or Resistance to Change | |
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| Utopia, Dystopia, and the Lessons of Dr. Frankenstein | |
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| Japan's Return to the Sword | |
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| Conservative Peasants | |
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| The Technological Fix as Resistance to Change | |
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| The Global Spread of Technology | |
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| Technology Transfer | |
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| The Debate Over Technology Transfer | |
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| International Development and Appropriate Technology | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| Social Movements: Human Agency and Mobilization for Change | |
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| Making Social Change Happen | |
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| How Social Movements Matter | |
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| Understanding Social Movements as Change Agents | |
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| What Is a Social Movement? | |
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| Common Goods and Free Riders | |
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| Who Are Social Movement Participants? | |
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| Resource Mobilization | |
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| Social Movement Framing | |
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| Social Movement Tactics | |
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| Political Opportunity for Social Movements | |
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| Resistance to Social Change | |
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| Social Movements Opposing the Direction of Social Change | |
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| State Resistance to Social Movements as Agents of Change | |
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| Crowds, Social Movements, and Popular Democracy | |
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| Social Movements as Drivers of Social Change | |
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| Linking Social Movements to Social Change | |
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| Social Movements as Effective Change Agents | |
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| The Movement to Win Collective Bargaining | |
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| Tracing the Effects of Social Movement Actions | |
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| Abortion and the Battle for Public Opinion | |
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| Personal Change as a Consequence of Social Movement Participation | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| War, Revolution, and Social Change: Political Violence and Structured Coercion | |
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| War as an Instrument of Social Change | |
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| Versions of War as Coercive Politics | |
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| Ethnic Conflict and Civil Wars | |
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| War and the State | |
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| Creating Nationalism and Patriotism | |
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| Power and Coercion | |
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| Purification of Space | |
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| War as a Driver of Social Change | |
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| Lessons From Twentieth-Century World Wars | |
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| Migration and War Refugees | |
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| Psychology of War | |
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| Constructing Mentalities for War | |
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| The Social Economy of War | |
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| Military Research and Development | |
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| State and Corporate Planning | |
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| Revolution and Social Transformation | |
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| Ways of Understanding Revolution | |
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| War-Weakened States and Defecting Militaries | |
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| Revolutionary Outcomes: Political Change and Social Change | |
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| War and Resistance to Social Change | |
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| War in Opposition to Social Change | |
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| Resistance to War: Peace as a Trajectory for Social Change | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| Corporations in the Modern Era: The Commercial Transformation of Material Life and Culture | |
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| Understanding Corporations and Social Change | |
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| Corporations as Evolutionary Systems | |
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| Corporations in the Conflict Perspective | |
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| Businesses, Firms, and Large Corporations | |
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| Tort Victims and the Actual Price You Pay | |
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| The Corporation's Varied History | |
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| Monopoly Capitalism | |
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| The Ways Large Corporations Direct Social Change | |
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| Technology and the Corporate Dynamic | |
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| Control and Investment of Capital | |
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| Transformation of the Labor Process | |
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| Advertising and the Corporate Creation of Culture | |
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| Political Power and Agenda Setting | |
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| Large Corporations and Resistance to Social Change | |
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| Corporations Working Against Change | |
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| Organizational Entropy | |
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| Corporate Culture Versus Innovation | |
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| Resistance to Corporate-Driven Change | |
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| The Environmental Crisis and Corporations of the Future | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| States and Social Change: The Uses of Public Resources for the Common Good | |
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| Strong States and Social Change | |
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| The Role of Strong States in Modern Times | |
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| The State and Social Change: The United States in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Public Health: Reducing Sickness and Death | |
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| The Public Watering of the West | |
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| The Judicial Road to Civil Rights | |
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| Political Generations in the Modern Civil Rights Movement | |
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| State-Driven Social Change in Modern China | |
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| Two Versions of Democracy | |
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| Mao's Revolutionary China, 1949-1976 | |
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| Post-Mao China: The Deng Xiaoping Era | |
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| The Three Gorges Dam | |
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| Resistance to State-Directed Social Change | |
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| Using the State in Opposition | |
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| Opposing the Power of the State | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| Making Social Change: Engaging a Desire for Social Change | |
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| Using Human Agency, Now or Later | |
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| Vocations of Social Change | |
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| Nongovernmental Organizations and Gap Year Experiences | |
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| Agency and Ethical Responsibility | |
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| Activism as a Part of Life | |
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| Social Change Happens | |
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| Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| About the Author | |