Social Morphogenesis

by Margaret S. Archer

The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400761279
• ISBN13: 9789400761278
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"