Economy and Social Change
Contents of This Chapter:
- Learning Outcomes
- Chapter Story
- Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Story
- Open Content, Original
- Open Content, Shared Previously
- What Is an Economy?
- Types of Economic Systems
- Capitalism and Socialism: Critical Comparisons
- Critique of Capitalism
- Critique of Socialism
- Licenses and Attributions for What is an Economy?
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- Sociological Perspectives on Economic Change
- Karl Marx’s Theory of Historical Materialism
- Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
- Going Deeper
- Licenses and Attributions for Types of Economies
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- U.S. Economic Change Over Time
- Technology
- Organized Labor
- The Fight to Make Bad Jobs Better
- May Day: A Labor Movement Case Study
- The U.S. Labor Movement Today
- Going Deeper
- Licenses and Attributions for U.S. Economic Change Over Time
- Open Content, Original
- Open Content, Shared Previously
- All Rights Reserved Content
- New Economic Models
- Re-Evaluating Growth
- Localization
- The Economics of Happiness
- Doughnut Economics and Māori Worldview
- Going Deeper
- Licenses and Attributions for New Economic Models
- Open Content, Original
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- All Rights Reserved Content
- Conclusion
- Review of Learning Outcomes
- Key Terms
- Comprehension Check
- Licenses and Attributions for Conclusion
- Open Content, Original
- References
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