TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boudon,Raymond
TI  - Theories of Social Change: A Critical Appraisal 
SN  - 0745601197
AV  - HM101 .B687 1986
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity
KW  - Social change
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Translation of: La place du desordre, first published by Presses Universitaires de France, 1984; Foreword 1. Theories of Social Change 2. Individual Action, Aggregation Effects and Social Change 3. The Laws Governing Change: the Nomological Bias 4. Structures and Change: the Structuralist Bias 5. The Search for the Prime Mover: the Ontological Bias 6. A Well-Tempered Determinism 7. Giving Disorder its Due
N2  - Boudon argues that social life is in a fundamental sense marked by disorder. Not only are there no laws of social life, but patterns of social change continually diverge from the outcome which social actors attempt to achieve
ER  -