Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970302004739.00663178@tmn.com> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:47:39 -0600 From: Tom Abeles <mailto:tabeles@TMN.COM> Subject: McQuaid/ Speed of social change To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Johnthere are large bodies of literature on this. If you want to look specifically at the integration of the social, economic and bio/physical, Peter Allen has some excelent compex models working on this system- He is in England. here isn the Us Stephen Guastello, a psychlogist and some of his other chaos theoretical friends have models- Stephen is at marquette in Milwaukee.. but then before you bite into these folks you might also want to read some of Julian Simon's works- he is a scholar with the Cato Insitute and a prof and has a number of books
but if you are interested in just the sdocial change aspect- a quick literature search will choke you with materials out there from local to global and from the developing world to the developed world and from business to communities to families
so name your poison
cheers
tom abeles
At 11:56 PM 2/28/97 -0500, you wrote: >I am a journalist writing a book about the global fisheries crisis, though
>my query here is broader. One of my topics is accelerating global change
>driven my international markets, and I am trying to burrow into the subject
>of cultural change in general. I am especially interested in the way
>social/cultural change seems (to the layperson, anyway) to be speeding up,
>and how the phenomenon affects cultures, and the individuals who make up
>those cultures. What drives the acceleration, if it does exist, and what
>does that mean for the future? Do cultures, generally speaking, go through
>cycles of rapid and slower evolution? Does anyone on the list have any
>handy references of readings or people who have specifically examined the
>dynamics of any of the following: technological/social/economic/ecological
>change, and/or the links between them?
>I realize these questions may seem frighteningly vague, but I'm looking for
>ways to approach the topic, which is an important one.
>Thanks for any help,
>John McQuaid
mailto:>John.McQuaid@pressroom.com >
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