Author : Hemant Shah
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1439906262
How Daniel Lerner's seminal work contributed to the overall professionalization of communication theory and sociology.
Author : John G. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1979-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 134916156X
Presents speeches by various African American religious and political leaders from the days of slavery to the present, along with biographical information and historical background.
Author : Arthur P. J. Mol
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN :
The theory of ecological modernization explains the forces, mechanisms and dynamics of environmental reform in modern society. Its value is illustrated in the ecological restructuring of the chemical industry on a national and global scale. Detailed studies on the paint industry, the plastic and polymer sector and the pesticide industry show how and to what extent the environment is becoming a crucial factor in the redesigning of the institutional order of society.
Author : David C. Engerman
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Situating modernization theory historically, Staging Growth avoids conventional chronologies and categories of analysis, particularly the traditional focus on conflicts between major powers. The contributors employ a variety of approaches-from economic and intellectual history to cultural criticism and biography-to shed fresh light on the global forces that shaped the Cold War and its legacies. Most of the pieces are comparative, exploring how different countries and cultures have grappled with the implications of modern development. At the same time, all of the essays address similar fundamental questions. Is modernization the same thing as Westernization? Is the idea of modernization universally valid? Do countries follow similar trajectories as they undertake development? Does modernization bring about globalization? - Publisher.
Author : Amy E. Slaton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0801872979
Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings—little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry—offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production. The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures and priorities of mass production. These included a comprehensive application of science to commercial enterprise and vast redistributions of skills, opportunities, credit, and risk in the workplace. Reinforced concrete also changed the American landscape as building buyers embraced the architectural uniformity and simplicity to which the technology was best suited. Based on a wealth of data that includes university curricula, laboratory and company records, organizational proceedings, blueprints, and promotional materials as well as a rich body of physical evidence such as tools, instruments, building materials, and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings, this book tests the thesis that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers' search for profits, but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural agendas.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1118697960
How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science.
Author : Peter J. Bloom
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0253012333
For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global economy. These 15 essays address governance, production, and social life; the role of media; and the discourse surrounding large-scale development projects, revealing modernization's deep effects on the expressive culture of Africa.
Author : Begüm Adalet
Publisher : Stanford Studies in Middle Eas
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503605541
Beastly politics : Dankwart Rustow and the Turkish model of modernization -- Questions of modernization : empathy and survey research -- Material encounters : experts, reports, and machines -- "It's not yours if you can't get there" : modern roads, mobile subjects -- The innkeepers of peace : hospitality and the Istanbul Hilton
Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9781452900063
Author : Kristen E. Looney
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501748858
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—improvements in agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environment—were realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of industrialization. Looney's research is based on several years of fieldwork in Asia and makes a unique contribution by systematically comparing China's development experience with other countries. Relevant to political science, economic history, rural sociology, and Asian Studies, the book enriches our understanding of state-led development and agrarian change.
