Introduction: From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations - An Introduction to Big History

Collection article | Sammelwerksbeitrag

Each scientific study emerges in its own particular time and marks a new step in the development of human thought.1 Big History materialized to satisfy the human need for a unified vision of our existence. It came together in the waning decades of the twentieth century, in part, as a reaction to the specialization of scholarship and education that had taken hold around the world. While this specialization had great results, it created barriers that stood in contrast to a growing unity among our global communities. These barriers were increasingly awkward to bridge, and, thus, Big History emerged as a successful new framework.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-93-84082-73-4
• Extent: Seite(n): 16
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology (1)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grinin, Leonid ; Rodrigue, Barry ; Korotayev, Andrey
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Primus Books
• (where): Russland
• (when): 2015

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57736-1
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST