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Whenever we speak of social change, it helps to specify in which of its two major meanings we wish to employ the concept. For the social sciences have always analyzed social change in two perspectives. First, social (or ‘historical’) change is conceived of as a set of blind and impersonal forces, structural trends and contradictions to which human agents are exposed as objects, if not as passive victims to whom change ‘happens’.
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Offe, C. (2019). Civil society and social order: demarcating and combining market, state and community (2000). In: Institutionen, Normen, Bürgertugenden. Ausgewählte Schriften von Claus Offe, vol 3. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22261-1_2
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