Jiří Subrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development, long term process and changes in the key areas of social life. These include not only temporalized sociology, evolutionary theory, civilizational analysis, societal systems, structures and functions, but also modernization and revolution, risk, crisis, catastrophe and collapse, wars, conflicts and violence, nations, nationalism and collective memory.

This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analysing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from historical and anthropological perspectives.

The essays in this volume are written by some of the most influential authors in the sociology of education and critical policy studies.

A consideration of anthro and soc as these relate to culture.

A penetrating reinterpretation of the basic problems facing the twenty-first century and an examination of their solutions.

Chapters inc: "Elite and Democracy," and "Bureaucracy and Power."