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            * The Theory of Social Change and Modernization Processes
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            1. Fundamentals concepts of social change in the conception of the philosophy of history
            mythical versus the historical understanding of time (Eliade, Bultmann) - the concept of t
            Israel versus in ancient Greece - ancient historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, 

            Colingwood's features for Christian historiography (universal, providencial , apocalyptic,
            - milenarismus and chiliasm, Joachim di Fiore - differences between the medieval, renaissa
            (Cartesian) historiography - progress in theory Bossuet, Condorcet, Turgot


            2. Classical evolutionism and its approach to the issue of social change

            the General Features: organicistic metaphor, metaphor embryos differences classical evolut
            Darwinism - Auguste Comte in his conception and evolution of human knowledge, Law of three
            statics versus social dynamics - Morgan Lewis in three stages of development of human hist

            savagery and civilization  

            3. Neoevolucionismus in the 20th century anthropology

            differences in comparison with classical evolutionism
            - unilinear versus multilinear evolution - general versus specific evolution - Leslie Whit
            energy - Julien Steward - Marshall Sahlins

             
            4. Neoevolucionism in sociology after World War II
            differences in comparison with classical evolutionism - Gerhard Lenski and his typology an

            stages by: hunters and gatherers, gardening, agricultural and industrial companies - Talco
            of companies, evolutionary universals, role in the evolution of cultural innovation, integ
            and differenciace, adaptive upgrading  


            5. The reactions to neoevolucionismus in sociology from the late 20th century
            the theory of structural differentiation - Smelser, - criticism of the theory of different

            division of labor: Ruescheymer: the relationship of power and division of labor, dediffere
            processes
            - the shift in the biologic neoevolucionism in sociology: variation, selection, stabilizat

            of system theory, sources of variability within the process variaions, selection of three 
            structural and material
            - Eisenstadt's coalescing in theory, partly coalescing and nekoalescent changes


            6. Theory of modernization
            relationship of modernization theory and classical evolutionism - classical theories of mo

            the 50s, the definition of modernization: historical, relativistic, analytical - westernoc
            classical modernization theory, the context of the Cold War, - the convergence theory - ne
            and neokonvergence theory - transitology - multiple (multiple) modernity - Huntington's cr

            modernization theories: the concept of political order

            7. Cyclical theory of social change

            Giambatisto Vico - Ibn Khaldun - Pareto - Sorokin - Danilevskij - Spengler - Toynbee

            8. Concepts of social change in historical materialism

            Karl Marx and his historical materialism - the Socio-economic formation - dependency theor
            World-systems theory - Marvin Harris and his theory of cultural materialism  


            9. Theory of Revolution
            the etymology of the term revolution - classics: Marx and Tocqueville - Theda Skocpol's st
            conception of revolution - Jean Baechler and his analysis of the revolutionary phenomenon:

            classification of marginal groups and antisocieties
            - the difference between political and social revolution - the difference between revoluti
            Jaroslav Krejci: vertical versus horizontal revolution - Shmuel Eisenstadt: revolution and

            coalescing changes