Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The personal experience of social change -- Recognizing social change -- Understanding and explaining social change -- Technology, science, and innovation : the social consequences of new knowledge and new ways to do things -- Social movements : human agency and mobilization for change -- War, revolution, and social change : political violence and structured coercion -- Corporations in the modern era : the commercial transformation of material life and culture -- States and social change : the uses of public resources for the common good -- Making social change : engaging a desire for social change.