Directions Of Change & Modernization Theory, Research, And Realities

Mustafa O Attir

Preface -- About the Conference -- Modernization Theory: Frameworks and Issues -- Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies -- Comparative Methodological Approaches in the Study of Modernization -- Socioeconomic System as a Variable in the Modernization Process -- Aspects of Change: Special Factors and Concepts -- Changes in the Nature of Ethnicity: From the Primordial to the Organizational -- Modernization and Development Potential of Traditional Grass Roots Peasant Organizations -- Structures of Knowledge Use in Modernization: Professions, Technology, and Moral Order -- Modernization, Everyday Life, and Social Roles: Benefits and Costs of Life in "Developed" Societies -- The Rate of Social Change and Modernization -- Case Studies: Modernization, Quality of Life, and Solidarities -- Socioeconomic Development Plans and Individual Satisfaction in Libya -- Urbanization and Modernization: The Other Side of the Coin -- Modernization Research in Culturally Segmented Societies: A Peruvian Experience -- Modernization or Americanization? The Concept of Modernity and American Culture