Perspectives on Modernization
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Perspectives on Modernization

Essays in Memory of Ian Weinberg

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Perspectives on Modernization

Essays in Memory of Ian Weinberg

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

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781487592844
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Dissertations en sociologie

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Preface
  4. Ian Weinberg (1938-69)
  5. Introduction
  6. The concept of modernization: an unfinished chapter in sociological theory
  7. Typical normative conflicts in stages of cultural change
  8. On political modernity: stratification and the generation of societal power
  9. The modernization of political conflict in France
  10. Rural migration and patterns of urban growth
  11. Sexual change and illegitimacy: the European experience
  12. Political centralism and economic consequences: an analysis of early Japanese modernization
  13. Crisis and change in a West African utopia
  14. Language barriers to modernization: African examples