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El. knyga: All Societies Die: How to Keep Hope Alive

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  • Formatas: 272 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2021
  • Leidėjas: Cornell University Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781501755927
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  • Formatas: 272 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2021
  • Leidėjas: Cornell University Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781501755927
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In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope.

In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing.

Through his assessment of past—and current—societies, Cohn offers us a new way of looking at societal growth and decline. With a broad panorama of bloody stories, unexpected historical riches, crime waves, corruption, and disasters, he shows us that although our society will, inevitably, die at some point, there's still a lot we can do to make it better and live a little longer.

His quirky and inventive approach to an "end-of-the-world" scenario should be a warning. We're not there yet. Cohn concludes with a strategy of preserving and rebuilding so that we don't have to give a eulogy anytime soon.

Recenzijos

All Societies Die is judiciously researched and expertly written, and its philosophical insights could potentially make the difference between utopia and dystopia in both the present and the future. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library Social Issues collections.

(Midwest Book Review) This exciting and thought-provoking book provides a brief historical analysis of the causes of death of great civilizations by depicting factors that led to the collapse of powerful empires.

(Social Forces) In this highly accessible and thought-provoking book, Cohn addresses the factors that contribute to societal collapse with the aim of identifying what needs to be collectively addressed to avoid the collapse of today's global society. Informed by historical and contemporary sources, this is an important contribution to historical and political sociology collections.

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THE REALITY OF SOCIETAL DEATH
1 All Societies Die
1(4)
2 Is a Fall Really a Fall?
5(4)
3 The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: The Greatest Story You've Never Heard
9(3)
4 The End Comes to Byzantium
12(3)
5 The Environmental Causes of Violence in the Middle East
15(4)
6 The French Revolution: Fighting about Taxes at the Worst Possible Time
19(3)
7 How States Actually Die: The Real-Life Death of Somalia
22(3)
8 Somalia after the Fall
25(2)
9 What Links These Stories?
27(3)
TEMPTING FALSE STEPS
10 Rethinking Ecological Catastrophe
30(4)
11 Rethinking Moral Crisis
34(4)
THINKING BIG ABOUT THINKING BIG
12 Networks of Cooperation
38(4)
13 Why Bigger Is Better
42(4)
14 Legitimation: So Hard to Earn, So Precious to Have
46(3)
15 Psychological Foundations of Societal Survival
49(2)
WHAT WOULD BE LOST
16 Progress That Is Real: The Reduction of Poverty
51(4)
17 Progress That Is Real: The Improvement in Health
55(3)
18 Progress That Is Real: The Reduction of Violent Crime
58(4)
THE SEEDS OF TROUBLE
19 The Motivation to Not Cooperate: The Origins of Civilization in Raiding
62(4)
20 Primitive Accumulation Today: Raiding Is Not Dead
66(3)
21 The Motivation to Not Cooperate: How Europe Historically Underdeveloped Much of the World
69(4)
22 What Can Go Wrong When Western Companies Invest in Poor Nations
73(3)
23 Cycles of Catastrophic Debt
76(4)
THE HIDDEN SOURCE OF STRENGTH
24 East Asian Secrets of Economic Growth
80(4)
25 Big Government and Prosperity in the United States
84(4)
26 The Miracle of Airports
88(3)
27 The Origins of National Technological Advantage
91(4)
28 The Economic Returns to Funding Scientific Research
95(2)
29 The Tax Revolt: How the Conservative Middle Class Became the Revolutionary Class of Capitalism
97(5)
30 Why Tax Cuts Do Not Create Jobs
102(4)
CRIME, CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE
31 The Explosion of Crime in the Global South
106(4)
32 The Parallel Power: The Criminal Second State
110(4)
33 A Guide to Corruption for Naive Idealists
114(3)
34 Technical Demoralization
117(3)
35 What It Takes to Clean Up Corruption
120(4)
36 Ethnic Violence: The Economic Basis of Hatred
124(4)
37 Working at Creating a Culture of Hatred
128(4)
38 Landlessness and Political Violence
132(4)
39 Landlessness and Political Violence: The Evidence
136(4)
40 The Global Land Grab
140(4)
41 Population Growth and Landlessness
144(4)
TRIGGERS OF DESTRUCTION
42 Triggers of Destruction
148(3)
43 Long-Term Booms and Busts in Capitalism
151(4)
44 Technological and International Causes of Stagnation
155(4)
45 Will There Be a Sixth Mensch Cycle?
159(2)
46 Ever-Expanding Frontiers of Ecological Destruction
161(3)
47 Why Women's Power Matters
164(4)
48 Patriarchy Redux?
168(4)
THE CIRCLE OF SOCIETAL DEATH
49 The Circle of Societal Death
172(29)
50 Triggering the Circle of Societal Death
201(5)
CHANGING THE CULTURE, CHANGING THE WORLD
51 Creating a Culture of Societal Survival
206(3)
52 Changing the Culture of One-Third of the World: How Christianity Spread from Palestine
209(4)
53 Creating a Culture of Caretaking: Women in Ancient Rome and 2000's Uganda
213(4)
54 Creating Lasting Meaningful Social Reform: The Abolition of Slavery I
217(4)
55 Creating Lasting Meaningful Social Reform: The Abolition of Slavery II
221(3)
56 Doing the Right Thing under Impossible Conditions: Saving the Jews under Nazism
224(3)
57 What You Can Do to Save the World
227(4)
Appendix: Unit of Analysis Issues in Comparative Social Science 231(4)
Scholarly References 235
Samuel Cohn is Professor of Sociology at Texas A & M University. He is the Founder and First President of the American Sociological Association Section on Development He is author of The Process of Occupational Sex-typing and Employment and Development under Globalization. Follow him on X @Samuel__Cohn.
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