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

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• VerfasserIn: Inkeles, Alex,; Smith, David H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Publications Written Under the Auspices of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (437 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674499348; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674499348
• Access: restricted access
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• Statement of Responsibility: David H. Smith, Alex Inkeles.