PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; The Human Situation; Human Societies as Sociocultural Systems; The Evolution of Human Societies; Types of Human Societies; PART TWO: PREINDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES; Hunting and Gathering Societies; Horticultural Societies; Agrarian Societies; Some Evolutionary Bypaths and a Brief Review; PART THREE: INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES AND INDUSTRIALIZING SOCIETIES; The Industrial Revolution; Industrial Societies.
Patrick Nolan, Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, is the recipient of the Mortar Board Teaching Award. Gerhard Lenski, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the author of Power and Privilege and The Religious Factor. He is a recent recipient of the ASA Distinguished Career Award.
This is a well-written and carefully researched book that never panders to students, but also does not lose them with too much complexity. Peter Kivisto, Augustana College
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