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From its handling of social change it might appear that sociology had come out of the nineteenth century backwards. For some the class struggle is still the dominant factor in an evolutionary process conceived as necessary. For others technological ‘progress’ leads inevitably to a global social transformation. Development of the means of mass communication, advances in molecular biology, the proliferation of multi-nationals, the intellectuals and holders of knowledge: one or other of these, according to one’s preference, is proposed as the bearer of what Hegel had called Geschichtlichkeit, historicity.
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Boudon, R. (1977). Perverse Effects and Social Change. In: The Unintended Consequences of Social Action. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04381-1_2
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