Global Modernization : Rethinking the Project of Modernity,9780761947998

Global Modernization : Rethinking the Project of Modernity

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ISBN13: 9780761947998
ISBN10: 076194799X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-07-12
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

The last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the problems of modernity and modernization. In particular, three major processes have emerged as objects of debate: " The transformations of capitalism manifested in globalization and the unfolding of post-industrial society " The rapid and strong economic development of countries outside the West " The political and economic transformations in the post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Modernization and modernity
5(23)
The classic theory of modernization: modernization of traditional Third World societies
28(27)
Critiques of the classic theory of modernization and alternative approaches
55(28)
Modernity and its future
83(18)
Globalization and modernity
101(37)
Bibliography 138(11)
Index 149

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