
The Modernization Imperative
Description
Alles über E-Books | Antworten auf Fragen rund um E-Books, Kopierschutz und Dateiformate finden Sie in unserem Info- & Hilfebereich.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions

Person
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Systems Theory
- The Modernization Imperative
- Introduction
- Defining Modernization
- Modern societies
- Modernization and complexity
- Social cohesion
- Economism
- 'Scissors, Rock, Paper' interdependency
- The inevitability of modernization
- Politicians and modernization
- The desirability of modernization
- The ethos of modernization
- Education and Modernization
- Economic drives towards educational expansion
- Political drives towards educational expansion
- Education in flexible abstraction
- Education and social progress
- Politics and Modernization
- Modernization and democracy
- Moral modularity
- Morality and democracy
- The priority of process
- Single-issue politics and morality
- Opposition to Modernization
- High status intellectuals and modernization
- Environmentalism against modernization
- Optimism versus pessimism
- Modernization and alienation
- Modernizing alienation
- The Future of Modernization
- Appendix
- Systems Theory
- Where do systems come from?
- System boundaries
- Humans as communication units
- Advantages of complexity
- Selection and functionality
- System 'languages'
- The power of cognitive specialization
- Rationality and selection
- The modernization imperative
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Also Available
System requirements
File format: PDF
Copy-Protection: Adobe-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Install the free reader Adobe Digital Editions prior to download (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or the app PocketBook before downloading (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (only limited: Kindle).
The file format PDF always displays a book page identically on any hardware. This makes PDF suitable for complex layouts such as those used in textbooks and reference books (images, tables, columns, footnotes). Unfortunately, on the small screens of e-readers or smartphones, PDFs are rather annoying, requiring too much scrolling.
This eBook uses Adobe-DRM, a „hard” copy protection. If the necessary requirements are not met, unfortunately you will not be able to open the eBook. You will therefore need to prepare your reading hardware before downloading.
Please note: We strongly recommend that you authorise using your personal Adobe ID after installation of any reading software.
For more information, see our eBook Help page.