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The Primitive World and Its Transformations is a book in which the readers of Ethics, as well as others concerned with problems of morality, are likely to be interested. Professor Redfield considers certain of the changes resulting in society and behavior from the advent of civilization and seeks to understand something of what these have meant for humanity as a whole. There are six chapters in the book. The first chapter describes human living prior to civilization, and the second states what happened to societies subsequent to civilization. The third chapter distinguishes between the technical and the moral orders, refers to the disintegration of local moral orders and the evolution of more inclusive social orders under the influence of civilization, and indicates the rise of ideas as historical forces having a direct effect upon the moral order. The fifth chapter is concerned with the development of the proposition that man is competent to engage in the deliberate control of himself. The sixth chapter is devoted to certain aspects of cultural relativity. -- From http://www.jstor.org/stable/2378589 (Oct. 22, 2012).

Primitive societies. --- Social change. --- Civilization. --- Cities and towns. --- Acculturation --- Société primitive --- Changement social --- Civilisation --- Villes --- Acculturation.