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Who Lives in the City? 466 Disinvestment and Deindustrialization 469
The Norm of Noninvolvement and the Diffusion of The Potential of Urban Revitalization 470
Responsibility 467
Summary and review 471
Urban Problems and Social Policy 468
Suburbanization 468
Chapter 15 Social Change and the Environment 473
How Social Change Transforms Social Life 474 SoCiology and The new TeChnology the coming
star Wars 489
The Four Social Revolutions 474
The Growth Machine versus the Earth 490
From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft 475
Environmental Problems and Industrialization 491
The Industrial Revolution and Capitalism 475
Thinking CriTiCally the Island nations: “come see Us
Social Movements 476
While We Are still Here” 493
Conflict, Power, and Global Politics 476
The Environmental Movement 494
Theories and Processes of Social Change 479
CulTural diverSiTy around The world the Rain
Evolution from Lower to Higher 479 Forests: Lost tribes, Lost Knowledge 495
Natural Cycles 479 Thinking CriTiCally ecosabotage 496
Conflict over Power and Resources 480 Environmental Sociology 497
Ogburn’s Theory 480 Technology and the Environment: The Goal of
How Technology Is Changing Our Lives 482 Harmony 498
Extending Human Abilities 482 Summary and review 499
The Sociological Significance of Technology 483 epilogue: why major in Sociology? 501
When Old Technology Was New: The Impact of the gloSSary g-1
Automobile 484 referenceS r-1
The New Technology: The Microchip and Social Life 486 name indeX n-1
Thinking CriTiCally cyberwar and cyber Defense 487 SuBjecT indeX S-1
Cyberspace and Social Inequality 488 crediTS cr-1
