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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">Forschungsbericht</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Soziologie</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/ihsfo/fo116.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">strasser, hermann, functionalism and social change (pdf)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">strasser, hermann</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">institute for advanced studies, vienna, austria</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">functionalism and social change</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. ed.</field>
      <field key="410" subkey="">wien</field>
      <field key="412" subkey="">institut fuer hoehere studien</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">1977, march</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">vi, 110 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">institut fuer hoehere studien; forschungsberichte; 116</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">IHSFO 116</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">summary (preface): it is a common experience that our everyday life organized as it is in some form is characterized by orderly</field>
      <field key="per" subkey="s">istence as much as by change. as man's biological life cycle (from childhood to old age) and various forms of conflict in</field>
      <field key="pol" subkey="i">tical, economic, and social life (e.g., strikes, legal suits, demonstrations) and their implications for change suggest,</field>
      <field key="sma" subkey="l">l-scale changes may be considered as an important aspect of stability and persistence on a larger scale. thus, changing</field>
      <field key="pat" subkey="t">erns of social life seem to provide as much predictable continuity to societal organization as fixed patterns do. and there</field>
      <field key="are" subkey="">those events such as social and political revolutions, massive immigration, war, conquest, bad harvest, technological and</field>
      <field key="med" subkey="i">cal inventions, etc., that bring about basic changes on all levels of society. one is tempted to say that life is change; and</field>
      <field key="yet" subkey="">most people believe in the constancy of aspects of our lives, be that our occupation, the organization in which we work,</field>
      <field key="val" subkey="u">es we cherish, or the intellectual subject matter we study scientifically. in a recent book, donald a. schon (beyond the</field>
      <field key="sta" subkey="b">le state. harmondsworth: penguin books, 1971) has aptly shown that the belief in stability is a device to maintain stability,</field>
      <field key="or" subkey="a">t least the illusion of it, hence protecting us from apprehension of the various threats inherent in change. those who do not</field>
      <field key="sus" subkey="t">ain belief in the stable state of one's affairs, inescapably face what alvin toffler (future shock. new york: random house,</field>
      <field key="197" subkey="0">) has termed "future shock", namely, a social desease inflicted upon people who are unable to cope with the strain of</field>
      <field key="per" subkey="m">anent novelty in times when traditional patterns of behavior are too often inappropriate or dysfunctional. every theory of</field>
      <field key="soc" subkey="i">ety has a built-in stability-change dimension. some sociological theories take change in a social item (e.g.,</field>
      <field key="ind" subkey="u">strialization, authority relations) as the phenomenon to be explained. to other theories stability or the re-establishment of</field>
      <field key="som" subkey="e">stable state, of a social item (e.g., industrialism, structure of social inequality) is the phenomenon to be explained. in</field>
      <field key="the" subkey="">latter case, change is simply taken as a transition from one state of a social item to another. still other theories do not</field>
      <field key="str" subkey="e">ss either aspect. if all theories address themselves, in one way or another, to questions of stability and change, the crux</field>
      <field key="of" subkey="t">he matter is not which theoretical scheme deals with the change dimension, but rather which on</field>
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