Modernization And Its Political Consequences

Author : Hans Blokland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300134827

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Modernization and Its Political Consequences by Hans Blokland Pdf

divPeople’s capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel they are at the mercy of anonymous structures and processes over which they have little control, structures and processes that present them with options and realities they might not have chosen if they had any real choice. As a result, political interest declines and political cynicism flourishes. The underlying cause of the powerlessness pervading the current political system could be modernization. Taking the work of Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, and Joseph Schumpeter as a point of departure, Hans Blokland here examines this process. The topics covered are, among others, the meaning of modernization, the forces that drive it, and, especially, the consequences of modernization for the political freedom of citizens to influence the course of their society via democratic politics./DIV

Author : John H. Kautsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0471460966

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The Political Consequences of Modernization by John H. Kautsky Pdf

Author : Helen Margetts,Perri 6,Christopher Hood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199639618

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Paradoxes of Modernization by Helen Margetts,Perri 6,Christopher Hood Pdf

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization' and 'unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more general intellectual and social trends. It presents eight case study 'modernization' projects. Their architects promised faster trains, a more efficient and reactive health service, a more motivated public service, better performing local government, enhanced information for prospective US university students, reduced rates of child malnutrition in developing countries, and a free, open, safe, interconnected cyberspace for people to conduct their social and political life. Each case provides a neat story with a paradox that varies the modernization theme and tackles the question: why was the project pursued? The conclusion categorizes the cases in terms of their outcome, from success to disappointment, and suggests some strategies for a more balanced version of modernization for current and future policy-makers

Author : Volker Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443802253

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Modernity at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Volker Schmidt Pdf

Modernity is back on sociology's agenda. From the beginnings of sociology as an academic discipline, questions surrounding the meaning and consequences of modernity have fascinated generations of sociologists. The initial interest in the concept was inspired by a sense of a deep rupture (and crisis) afflicting European society, a sense that society was approaching something fundamentally different from the past, an entirely new form of societal organization that bore little resemblance to anything known before. Where exactly this transformation was headed was by no means clear, but around the 18th century a growing number of European intellectuals and scholars realized that the changes that had been in the making since the late 15th century were irreversible and could not be contained in any particular region or confined to particular sectors of society, but would ultimately transform all spheres of life. Like other thinkers, sociologists observed this transformation with awe, and their attitude towards it has always been ambivalent. The 20th century, during which modernity gradually began to break through globally, was also a century during which many sociologists became increasingly disillusioned with the promises of "the modern project". But with the exhaustion of the energies of "postmodernism", the intellectual movement that wanted to bury modernity, the interest in modernity began to resurface again; not least because it became increasingly clear that the world is far from approaching a societal condition pointing systematically beyond modernity. Instead, we are witnessing an intensification of modernization processes around the world. But what is modernity, anyway? The aim of the present volume is to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and about the significance of modernization processes in non-Western societies. As befits a subject matter as controversial and complex at this one, the book's chapters offer no conclusive answers to the questions they raise and address. The debate about modernity must and will continue, and one hopes that it will be conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect despite sometimes fierce disagreement between the participants. For only if we listen to each other can we make genuine intellectual progress.

Author : L. Keith Gardiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Brazil
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172132762819

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The Political Implications of Modernization by L. Keith Gardiner Pdf

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666440

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The Consequences of Modernity by Anthony Giddens Pdf

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which prior trends are radicalised rather than undermined. A post-modern social universe may eventually come into being, but this as yet lies 'on the other side' of the forms of social and cultural organization which currently dominate world history. In developing an account of the nature of modernity, Giddens concentrates upon analyzing the intersections between trust and risk, and security and danger, in the modern world. Both the trust mechanisms associated with modernity and the distinctive 'risk profile' it produces, he argues, are distinctively different from those characteristic of pre-modern social orders. This book build upon the author's previous theoretical writings, and will be of fundamental interest to anyone concerned with Gidden's overall project. However, the work covers issues which the author has not previously analyzed and extends the scope of his work into areas of pressing practical concern. This book will be essential reading for second year undergraduates and above in sociology, politics, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Author : Ronald Inglehart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691214429

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Modernization and Postmodernization by Ronald Inglehart Pdf

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy and momentum of their own. But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society leads to a basic shift in values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic political institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on a unique database, the World Values Surveys. This database covers a broader range than ever before available for looking at the impact of mass publics on political and social life. It provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population--from societies with per capita incomes as low as $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economies to authoritarian states.

Author : Alberto Martinelli
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847871459

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Global Modernization by Alberto Martinelli Pdf

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

Author : Ronald Inglehart,Christian Welzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521846950

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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy by Ronald Inglehart,Christian Welzel Pdf

This book presents a revised version of modernisation theory.

Author : Elton Mayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UCSC:32106001158952

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The Political Problem of Industrial Civilization by Elton Mayo Pdf

Author : Carlos H. Waisman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292769465

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Modernization and the Working Class by Carlos H. Waisman Pdf

This is a fascinating inquiry into the factors that determine the acceptance or rejection of capitalism by the industrial working class. Combining classical social theory, historical evidence, and survey data, Waisman explores the relationship between the degree of modernization and the legitimacy of the capitalist social order. Propositions about the interaction between established elites and emerging working classes are illustrated with three typical cases: Disraelian Britain, Bismarckian Germany, and Peronist Argentina. From the contrasting theories of Marx and Bakunin, the author derives hypotheses concerning the position of the working class in the economy and the consequences this has for legitimacy. He finds that countries at middle levels of industrial development—mostly latecomers to industrialization in Southern Europe and advanced areas of Latin America—have the greatest difficulty in establishing capitalism as a legitimate social order. They are advanced enough to have a large working class, yet underdeveloped enough to have a dissatisfied one.

Author : Ulrich Beck,Anthony Giddens,Scott Lash
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804724725

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Reflexive Modernization by Ulrich Beck,Anthony Giddens,Scott Lash Pdf

Three 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 : Julia Adams,Elisabeth S. Clemens,Ann Shola Orloff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822333635

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Remaking Modernity by Julia Adams,Elisabeth S. Clemens,Ann Shola Orloff Pdf

DIVA sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, trans/div

Author : Bruce Charlton,Peter Andras
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845406738

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The Modernization Imperative by Bruce Charlton,Peter Andras Pdf

This book argues that contemporary society in Western democracies is generally misunderstood to be a pyramidal hierarchy dominated either by government or the economy. Neither view is correct. We live in a fundamentally pluralistic society divided into numerous ‘modular’ social systems each performing different functions; these include politics, public administration, the armed forces, law, economics, religion, education, health and the mass media. Because each is specialized, none of these systems are dominant and there is no overall hierarchy of power. Modernizing societies are therefore structured more like a mosaic than a pyramid. Modernization is the tendency for growth in the adaptive complexity and efficiency of the social systems. Growth in complexity is shaped by selection processes which maintain the functionality of social systems. The best examples are the market economy, science and democratic politics. The process of modernization is both inevitable and, on the whole, desirable: this constitutes the modernization imperative. Therefore, the proper question should not be whether society should modernize, but how.

Author : Peter Glynn,Timothy Cadman,Tek Narayan Maraseni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786430120

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Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy by Peter Glynn,Timothy Cadman,Tek Narayan Maraseni Pdf

This impartial study analyses the role of employer’s organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to change its product and service delivery arrangements, which in turn means labour requirements will also change. The book also considers whether labour market issues should be explicit in the theoretical framework of ecological modernisation as it guides the policy development process.