The sociology and politics of development : a theoretical study /

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Main Author: Varma, Baidya Nath, 1921- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxfordshire, England ; New York : Routledge, 2014
Series:Routledge library editions. Development.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 General perspective; Dimensions of modernization; Political and economic; Planning; Barriers; Focus; Scope; General criteria; 2 The paradigm and the problematics of modernization; The paradigm; Definitions; The Model; The problematics of modernization; Problematics in ideological theories; Problematics in social scientific theories; Problematics in activistic theories; Further thoughts on problematics; 3 The ideological theories of modernization; The revolutionary model; The evolutionary model.
  • The responsesThe Catholic model; The Kemalist model; The African socialist model; The Gandhian model; 4 On the theory and the methodology of modernization studies; On theory; On methodology; Structural-functional framework; Propositional framework; Critical variables; Further assessment; 5 The sociological theories of modernization; Social change and modernization; The variables of modernization; The models of modernization; The pattern variables model; The sociocultural system model; The exposition of the models; General modernization theories; Mature modern society analysis.
  • Mass culture and mass societyCommunications theory; ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''local''; Modernizing nations; The intellectuals; Stratification; Religion; Family; Population: the theory of demographic transition; Some criticisms; 6 The economic and political theories of modernization; Economics; The variables of economic growth; The models of economic growth; Strategies of economic growth; Linkages to other disciplines; Some diagnoses; Concluding remarks; Political science; Introduction; The Anglo-American polities; Some typologies; Political development; The variables of political development.
  • The models of political developmentPromising leads; Some pivotal issues (nationalism, political development, democracy, interest groups, ideology and leadership); 7 The anthropological theories of modernization; Evolution and development; ''Folk'' society to urban anthropology; The culture of poverty debate; The community in the larger society; Political anthropology; The state; Economic anthropology; The community and the nation; 8 The activistic theories of modernization; The gradualist approach; System building; Entrepreneurship; Other catalytic factors; The revolutionary approach.
  • The Marxist revolutionThe non-Marxist revolution; Goal maintenance (Achieving power, consolidating revolutionary change, national planning); 9 Modernization theories: a summation; The economy; The polity; Education; The bureaucracy; 10 Modernization for what?; The history of modernization; The meaning of modernization; The goals of modernization; The strategies of modernization; (i) The revolutionary approach versus the evolutionary approach; (ii) Nationalism versus internationalism; (iii) Political development versus economic growth; (iv) Centralization versus decentralization.