Introducing Social Change: A Manual for Community Development

The development of industry in Europe and the United States has resulted in great marvels of production. However, non-Western nations, with a few exceptions, have not yet shared fully in this productivity, despite the desires of their leaders to do so. Also, in the United States, and in other industrial nations, there are sizeable minority groups which have not been fully assimilated into the productive pattern of the majority. Most live as poverty enclaves within the greater society. This socioeconomic imbalance has contributed to unrest in both the agrarian and industrial nations.

Conrad M. Arensberg (1910-1997) was professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Culture and Community, The Irish Countryman, and Family and Community in Ireland. Arthur H. Niehoff was senior scientist in George Washington University and has conducted extensive research in India, Trinidad, and Laos. Some of his books include An Anthropologist under the Bed, Another Side of History, and On Becoming Human: A Journey of 5,000,000 Years Revised.