Book contents
- Sustainability Transformations
- Series page
- Sustainability Transformations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Making Sense of Transformations
- 1 How Do We Change the World?
- 2 Sense-Making Analysis
- 3 How Societies Change
- Part II Varieties of Transformations to Sustainability
- Part III Manoeuvring in a Multi-transformational World
- References
- Index
3 - How Societies Change
Theories of Transformation
from Part I - Making Sense of Transformations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
- Sustainability Transformations
- Series page
- Sustainability Transformations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Making Sense of Transformations
- 1 How Do We Change the World?
- 2 Sense-Making Analysis
- 3 How Societies Change
- Part II Varieties of Transformations to Sustainability
- Part III Manoeuvring in a Multi-transformational World
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 – How societies change – presents some key examples of how historians, anthropologists, economists, and other academics have tried to come to grips with the agents and drivers of previous societal transformations. We cite examples of how the great Western transformation between 1500 and 1900 has been framed in different ways. Furthermore, we present two analogies of transformations: the abolition of slavery, and the replacement of horse transport in cities with automobile transport. This constitutes the basis for a typology of societal transformations based on the system levels and tempo of transformations.
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- Sustainability TransformationsAgents and Drivers across Societies, pp. 22 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019