Perspectives on Modernization : : Essays in Memory of Ian Weinberg / / ed. by Edward Harvey.

Perspectives on Modernization is published in memory of Ian Weinberg, a sociologist of brilliant promise who died at the age of thirty. It consists of essays by his colleagues, students, and teachers which reflect upon and carry further Ian Weinberg's major scholarly concerns – the processes of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1972
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; figures, tables, graphs throughout
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Ian Weinberg (1938-69)
  • Introduction
  • The concept of modernization: an unfinished chapter in sociological theory
  • Typical normative conflicts in stages of cultural change
  • On political modernity: stratification and the generation of societal power
  • The modernization of political conflict in France
  • Rural migration and patterns of urban growth
  • Sexual change and illegitimacy: the European experience
  • Political centralism and economic consequences: an analysis of early Japanese modernization
  • Crisis and change in a West African utopia
  • Language barriers to modernization: African examples