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Agents of Historical Change

In: Global Economic and Cultural Transformation

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  • Mohamed Rabie

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The societal processes of transformation explained in Chapter 3, the sociocultural, political, economic, and infomedia processes, represent together the mechanism through which change is introduced and managed in society. Therefore, they are not agents that provoke change and make history but tools to introduce and coordinate change. Nevertheless, no change can be initiated without the involvement of at least one societal process, and no social transformation can be completed without affecting the positions of the other processes. As a consequence, every change, regardless of its nature and magnitude, causes conflict and produces winners and losers, and thus it causes the balance of power relationships in society to change, sometimes drastically.

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  • Mohamed Rabie, 2013. "Agents of Historical Change," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Global Economic and Cultural Transformation, chapter 5, pages 79-92, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36533-0_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137365330_5
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