Title: Directions of change :
Authors: Suda, Zdeněk; Holzner, Burkart.; Tīr, Muṣṭafá ʻUmar; Tīr, Muṣṭafá ʻUmar
Date: 1981
Publisher: Westview Press,
Physical description: xviii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Preface / Mustafa O. Attir, Burkart Holzner, and Zdenek Suda -- Convergence and divergence in industrial societies / Alex Inkeles -- Comparative methodological approaches in the study of modernization / Vijai P. Singh -- Socioeconomic system as a variable in the modernization process / Zdenek Suda -- Changes in the nature of ethnicity / Erik Allardt -- Modernization and development potential of traditional grass roots peasant organizations / Michael Cernea -- Structures of knowledge use in modernization / Burkart Holzner and Jiri Nehnevajsa -- Modernization, everyday life, and social roles / Thomas Kutsch -- The rate of social change and modernization / Zdenek Suda -- Socioeconomic development plans and individual satisfaction in Libya / Mustafa O. Attir and Robert A. Peterson -- Urbanization and modernization / Michel Bassand -- Modernization research in culturally segmented societies / Lawrence V. Stockman -- Modernization of Americanization? / Zdenek Suda.
Notes: "A Westview special study." A collection of essays originating from an international sociological conference held in Brussels, Belgium, December 1978.
Subject headings (LCSH): Economic development--Social aspects--Congresses.; Industrialization--Social aspects--Congresses.; Social change--Congresses.