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.)

Table of 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