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Author : Alberto Martinelli
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761947998
This text provides a new approach to examining questions of modernization and modernity. It overhauls existing theories and concepts and applies them to the new social and economic conditions that define our age.
Author : Michael E. Latham
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0807860794
Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.
Author : Alberto Martinelli
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847871453
The last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the problems of modernity and modernization. In particular, three major processes have emerged as objects of debate: " The transformations of capitalism manifested in globalization and the unfolding of post-industrial society " The rapid and strong economic development of countries outside the West " The political and economic transformations in the post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe
Author : Arthur P. J. Mol
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262632843
A balanced look at globalization and its potential environmental effects, both destructive and beneficial.
Author : V. Schmidt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113743581X
This book introduces the concept of global modernity as a paradigm for the analysis of the contemporary era. Building on Parson's distinction between social, cultural, personal and organismic systems, it presents a four-dimensional scheme that aims to identify modernity's key structural components.
Author : John McGrath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 131745569X
This book focuses on the forces of social change and what they have meant in the lives of the people caught in the middle of them from medieval times through our current era of globalization.
Author : Bo Kong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811360162
This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change. It examines how China, following its emergence as the world’s largest energy consumer and its resultant growing dependence on foreign energy, engages the world on energy, and its implications for global governance of energy. It notably focuses on the policy impact of China’s global engagement for the accelerated “going out” strategy and the so-called “one belt one road” (OBOR) initiative, and profound climate implications for the rest of the world, contending that the type of energy services, technologies, and infrastructure China finances around the globe today will determine the global community’s carbon footprint in the foreseeable future.
Author : David Ekbladh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1400833744
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.
Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9781452900063
Author : Hatem Akil
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category :
ISBN : 9789463727457
This book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines engaging scholars from sociology to science, philosophy to robotics, medicine to visual culture, mathematics to cultural theory, etc., including a contribution by Alain Touraine. From coloniality to pandemic, modernity can now represent a global necessity in which awareness of human and environmental crises, injustices, and inequality would create the possibility of a modernity-to-come.