Exploring Individual Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2019
378 pages
978-0-231-88197-5 (ISBN)
Description
Presents a self-contained report of the findings of the Harvard-Stanford Project on Social and Cultural Aspects of Modernization.
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Alex Inkeles
Exploring Individual Modernity
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01/2020
Columbia University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Charts
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Understanding and Misunderstanding Individual Modernity
- Part I. Theory and Method
- 2. A Model of the Modern Man
- 3. Forces Producing Individual Modernity: A Theory of Effects
- Part II. Results of the First Phase
- 4. Creating and Validating the Modernity Scale
- 5. Results of the First Phase: A Summary
- Part III. Ethnic and National Differences
- 6. Indian Images of Modernity in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- 7. Individual Modernity in Different Ethnic and Religious Groups
- 8. National Differences in Individual Modernity
- Part IV. Family and Kin
- 9. Construction and Validation of a Cross-National Scale of Family Modernism
- 10. Modernity and Acceptance of Family Limitation
- Part V. Participation and Adjustment
- 11. Participant Citizenship in Six Developing Countries
- 12. Personal Adjustment and Modernization
- 13. Modernization, Modernity, and Aging
- Part VI. At the Frontier
- 14. The Modernization of Man in Communist Countries
- 15. The Future of Individual Modernity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
