Directions of change
Subtitle: modernization theory, research, and realities
By: edited by Mustafa O. Attir, Burkart Holzner, and Zdenek Suda.
Contributors: Attir, Mustafa O.; Holzner, Burkart.; Suda, Zdenek.
Series: A Westview special study
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Social change -- Congresses.; Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Economic development -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Other titles: Modernization theory, research, and realities.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
A collection of essays originating from an international sociological conference held in Brussels, Belgium, December 1978.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Mustafa O. Attir, Burkart Holzner, and Zdenek Suda; title: Convergence and divergence in industrial societies / Alex Inkeles; title: Comparative methodological approaches in the study of modernization / Vijai P. Singh; title: Socioeconomic system as a variable in the modernization process / Zdenek Suda; title: Changes in the nature of ethnicity / Erik Allardt; title: Modernization and development potential of traditional grass roots peasant organizations / Michael Cernea; title: Structures of knowledge use in modernization / Burkart Holzner and Jiri Nehnevajsa; title: Modernization, everyday life, and social roles / Thomas Kutsch; title: The rate of social change and modernization / Zdenek Suda; title: Socioeconomic development plans and individual satisfaction in Libya / Mustafa O. Attir and Robert A. Peterson; title: Urbanization and modernization / Michel Bassand; title: Modernization research in culturally segmented societies / Lawrence V. Stockman; title: Modernization of Americanization? / Zdenek Suda.