Becoming Modern : Individual Change in Six Developing Countries

Name: Becoming Modern : Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
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ISBN: 9780674063761

ISBN-10: 0674063767

ISBN-13: 9780674063761

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Authors: Alex Inkeles, David H. Smith

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This is a valuable and fascinating book valuable because of the findings it presents, fascinating because of the way it presents them. The subject of Becoming Modern is the modernization process in six developing nations (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Bangladesh). The method is to survey about a thousand men, aged 20-30, in each of these lands. The goal is to demonstrate that a modern man, identifiable by his attitudes toward different aspects of life, does indeed exist, and to find out what factors encourage the transformation from traditional to modern. -The New Leader

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Alex Inkeles is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Insitution.

David H. Smith is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, and Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.

The Fundamentals
Introduction	p. 3
Toward a Definition of the Modern Man	p. 15
The Research Design and Sample Structure	p. 36
The Conduct of the Fieldwork	p. 50
Measuring Individual Modernity
Two Case Studies	p. 73
Constructing the OM Scale: An Overall Measure of Modernity	p. 84
The Content of OM: The Concept of Individual Modernity Reexamined in the Light of Empirical Evidence	p. 99
The Social Correlates of Individual Modernity	p. 119
Contexts and Causes of Modernization
The School as a Context for Modernization	p. 133
Modernity and the Mass Media	p. 144
The Factory as a School in Modernity	p. 154
Factory Modernity	p. 175
The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives	p. 192
Urban Nonindustrial Employment	p. 209
The Quantity and Quality of Urban Experience	p. 216
Rural Versus Urban Origin	p. 230
Home and School Background	p. 236
Summary and Conclusion
The Behavioral Manifestations of Individual Modernity	p. 251
An Overview: The Relative and Total Impact of the Explanatory Variables	p. 265
The Process of Individual Modernization	p. 278
Summary and Conclusions on the Social Significance of Individual Modernization	p. 289
Appendices
The Questionnaire	p. 319
OM-12: The Short Form	p. 348
The Set A Variables	p. 352
Migration and Individual Modernity	p. 354
The Match Control Table	p. 357
Bibliography	p. 359
Notes	p. 364
Index	p. 429
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