Modernization and Postmodernization

Modernization and Postmodernization

Author: Ronald Inglehart

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1997-05-25

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780691011806

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To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on the World Values Surveys, a unique database that looks at the impact of mass publics on political and social life.


Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

Author: Peter J. Bloom

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2014-05-09

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0253012333

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For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global economy. These 15 essays address governance, production, and social life; the role of media; and the discourse surrounding large-scale development projects, revealing modernization's deep effects on the expressive culture of Africa.


Cultural Evolution

Cultural Evolution

Author: Ronald Inglehart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108489311

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Presents and tests a theory that helps explain the rise of environmentalist parties, gender equality, and same sex marriage - and the reaction that led to Brexit and the election of Trump.


Changing Qatar

Changing Qatar

Author: Geoff Harkness

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1479894656

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A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition Qatar, an ambitious country in the Arabian Gulf, grabbed headlines as the first Middle Eastern nation selected to host the FIFA World Cup. As the wealthiest country in the world—and one of the fastest-growing—it is known for its capital, Doha, which boasts a striking, futuristic skyline. In Changing Qatar, Geoff Harkness takes us beyond the headlines, providing a fresh perspective on modern-day life in the increasingly visible Gulf. Drawing on three years of immersive fieldwork and more than a hundred interviews, he describes a country in transition, one struggling to negotiate the fluid boundaries of culture, tradition, and modernity. Harkness shows how Qataris reaffirm—and challenge—traditions in many areas of everyday life, from dating and marriage, to clothing and humor, to gender and sports. A cultural study of citizenship in modern Qatar, this book offers an illuminating portrait that cannot be found elsewhere.


Cultural Change in Modern World History

Cultural Change in Modern World History

Author: Peter N. Stearns

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1350054356

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In this innovative textbook, leading world historian Peter Stearns analyses key examples of culture change from around the world, highlighting what culture change involves and how it can be explained and assessed, both historically and in the contemporary world. Culture change is one of the most interesting and significant features of human society, but until now there has been no book for the classroom which looks explicitly at this phenomenon. Cultural Change in Modern World History covers different kinds and levels of culture change since 1500 – from colonial culture contact in British India to modernization in Meiji Japan and changing attitudes towards gay marriage in the past decade – considering how we should define culture change, how to deal with causation and how to evaluate continuities and consequences. Stearns addresses fundamental questions: why do groups of people change their beliefs and values, and what happens when they do? Conversely, why do some groups resist culture change, and how do some manage to combine novel and more traditional cultural components? Figuring out how better to understand why groups or societies change their minds – or refuse to do so – provides a crucial perspective on human behaviors and values. As the first book to explore this important question, Cultural Change in Modern World History is a ground-breaking text for students of world history, cultural history and anthropology.


Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

Author: Donald H. Shively

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 1400869013

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Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Directions of Change & Modernization Theory, Research, and Realities

Directions of Change & Modernization Theory, Research, and Realities

Author: Mustafa O Attir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780367168513

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This book examines the modernization process with particular attention to how it is affected by cultural -- and especially socioeconomic -- variables. It describes major theoretical approaches to the idea of modernity and points to the sociological issues interlinked with modernization.


The Values of Volunteering

The Values of Volunteering

Author: Paul Dekker

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780306477379

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This book examines volunteering in detail from a civil society perspective, using empirical data garnered from various sources for countries all over the globe. The contributions deal with a broad spectrum of questions, ranging from the diversity, social and cultural determinants and organizational settings of volunteering, to its possible individual, social, and political effects.


Culture Change and Modernization

Culture Change and Modernization

Author: Louise S. Spindler

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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A book particularly applicable to sociology & anthropology courses concerned with sociocultural change. Composed of 5 major units: Models for Cultural Change; Mini-models & Cases; Change & Persistence in Special Areas; Overviews & Study Aids. The book begins with a general model & then elaborates on the model using specific strategies used to study cultural change.