Social Mobility and Modernization
Subtitle: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780262182089
Subjects: Economic history; Social History; Social mobility; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Social classes; Social Stratification; Social Science; Sociology; Europe; USA; General; Sociology - General; History / General; Industrialization; History
First sentence: Gaining Their World: Modernization and Its Impact on Mobile and Aggrieved Peoples How the West modernized, and what modernization meant to human society, is the central theme of this volume.