Becoming Modern : Individual Change in Six Developing Countries / David H. Smith, Alex Inkeles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inkeles, Alex, author.

Smith, David H., author.

Series:

Publications Written Under the Auspices of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Developing countries--Social conditions.

Social surveys--Developing countries.

Sociology--Methodology.

Local Subjects:

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Developing countries--Social conditions.

Social surveys--Developing countries.

Sociology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Becoming Modern".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

I. The Fundamentals

1. Introduction

2. Toward a Definition of The Modern Man

3. The Research Design and Sample Structure

4. The Conduct of The Fieldwork

II. Measuring Individual Modernity

5. Two Case Studies

6. Constructing the OM Scale: An Overall Measure of Modernity

7. The Content of OM: The Concept of Individual Modernity Reexamined in the Light of Empirical Evidence

8 The Social Correlates of Individual Modernity

III. Contexts and Causes of Modernization

9. The School as a Context for Modernization

10. Modernity and the Mass Media

11. The Factory as a School in Modernity

12. Factory Modernity

13. The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives

14. Urban Nonindustrial Employment

15. The Quantity and Quality of Urban Experience

16. Rural Versus Urban Origin

17. Home and School Background

IV. Summary and Conclusion

18. The Behavioral Manifestations of Individual Modernity

19. An Overview: The Relative and Total Impact of the Explanatory Variables

20. The Process of Individual Modernization

21. Summary and Conclusions on the Social Significance of Individual Modernization

Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. Index

Appendix A. The Questionnaire

Appendix B. OM-12: The Short Form

Appendix C. The Set A Variables

Appendix D. Migration and Individual Modernity

Appendix E. The Match Control Table

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-49934-4

OCLC:

654256805