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Author: Marion Joseph Levy
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Description for this book, Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs. (2 Vols.), will be forthcoming.
Author: Marion J. Levy Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1000678164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Modernization and the Structure of Societies, Marion Levy shows the interdependencies of societies as a systematic whole in matters that are relevant for international affairs. He distinguishes different types of societies while simultaneously showing elements common to all societies. In a new epilogue being added to this edition, titled "Modernization Exhumed," the author alleges that criticism of modernization theory has generally been ideological or otherwise nonscientific. He provides a strong defense of his hypothesis. In his new introduction, he concentrates on the concept of interdependency. Modernization and the Structure of Societies is crucial to the understanding of contemporary international problems. It is a necessary addition to the personal libraries of sociologists, political scientists, and scholars of international affairs., Levy writes so as to produce strong reactions, but this does not obscure his real contribution. Because of his ambitious effort to synthesize a tremendous amount of available scholarship, the study is certain to last for a long time as a standard reference in the field of comparative sociology."—Morris Janowitz, American Journal of Sociology, "A giant book raising innumerable problems, often an exasperating book, yet important and likely to be much referred to by writers on comparative politics and administration."—Fred W. Riggs, American Political Science Review.
Author: Jr Levy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-18
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781138528253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Modernization and the Structure of Societies, Marion Levy shows the interdependencies of societies as a systematic whole in matters that are relevant for international affairs. He distinguishes different types of societies while simultaneously showing elements common to all societies. In a new epilogue being added to this edition, titled "Modernization Exhumed," the author alleges that criticism of modernization theory has generally been ideological or otherwise nonscientific. He provides a strong defense of his hypothesis. In his new introduction, he concentrates on the concept of interdependency. Modernization and the Structure of Societies is crucial to the understanding of contemporary international problems. It is a necessary addition to the personal libraries of sociologists, political scientists, and scholars of international affairs.
Author: Marion J. Levy
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780691093376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Description for this book, Structure of Society, will be forthcoming.
Author: Andrew Hoberek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1107048109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon.
Author: Calvin Goldscheider
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marion Joseph Levy
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ISBN-13: 9781560008965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Modernization and the Structure of Societies, Marion Levy shows the interdependencies of societies as a systematic whole in matters that are relevant for international affairs. He distinguishes different types of societies while simultaneously showing elements common to all societies. In a new epilogue being added to this edition, titled "Modernization Exhumed," the author alleges that criticism of modernization theory has generally been ideological or otherwise nonscientific. He provides a strong defense of his hypothesis. In his new introduction, he concentrates on the concept of interdependency. Modernization and the Structure of Societies is crucial to the understanding of contemporary international problems. It is a necessary addition to the personal libraries of sociologists, political scientists, and scholars of international affairs.
Author: Ronald Inglehart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997-05-25
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780691011806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo 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.
Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780804724722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.
Author: Hartmut Rosa
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0231148348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies in particular three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time. According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the "shrinking of the present," a decreasing time period during which expectations based on past experience reliably match future results and events. When this phenomenon combines with technological acceleration and the increasing pace of life, time seems to flow ever faster, making our relationships to each other and the world fluid and problematic. It is as if we are standing on "slipping slopes," a steep social terrain that is itself in motion and in turn demands faster lives and technology. As Rosa deftly shows, this self-reinforcing feedback loop fundamentally determines the character of modern life.
