Modernisation

Higher education in the Asia-Pacific: strategic responses to globalization

by Howes, David, Yeoh, Brenda, Ford, David, Marginson, Simon, Ziguras, Christopher, McBurnie, Grant, Yang, Rui, Khadria, Binod, Kaur, Sarjit, Al-Mubaraki, Abdullah A. S., Chong, Ho Kong, Erlenawati, Sawir, Gribble, Cate, Hashimoto, Hiroko, Isa, Norpisah Mat, Kaur, Sarjit, (ed), Kudo, Kazuhiro, Li, Mei, Lie, Koo Yew, Marginson, Simon, (ed), Pang, Vincent, Pimpa, Nattuvud, Rena, Ravinder, Sawir, Erlenawati, (ed), Sidhu, Gurnam Kaur, Sidhu, Ravinder, Sirat, Morshidi, Yang, Lijing, Yonezawa, A., Zhang, Yongjun

fromHigher education dynamics

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This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacifi…

The modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825

by Dixon, Simon, (Simon M.)

fromNew approaches to European history

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"This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation theory which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship betwee…

An inquiry into modes of existence: an anthropology of the moderns

by Latour, Bruno

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In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern, a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the past twenty-five years, La…

Informal institutions and rural development in China

by Hu, Biliang

fromRoutledge studies on the Chinese economy

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"This book shows the great importance of informal institutions on the economic and social development of rural China. It examines the relationship between informal institutions and rural development in China since the end of the 1970s, focusing in particular on three major infor…

The modernization of Soviet industrial management: socioeconomic development and the search for viab…

by Conyngham, William J.

fromSoviet and East European studies

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Study of modernization in industrial administration and industrial planning in the USSR since 1964 - considers the context of administrative reform and scientific management; examines theories, applications and results of systems design, particularly in the existing economic sys…

Economic adjustments in new democracies: lessons from Southern Europe

by Ethier, Diane

fromInternational political economy series

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Examines the orientation and outcome of economic policies in Greece, Spain and Portugal during the post-authoritarian period, 1975-95.

Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States

by Offe, Claus

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"At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of 'the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States. Claus Offe considers the perspectives…

Risk society: towards a new modernity

by Beck, Ulrich, Ritter, Mark A.

fromTheory, culture & society (Book series)

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"Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the 'risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central t…

Peasants, politics, and revolution: pressures toward political and social change in t…

by Migdal, Joel S.

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Monograph, based partly on a literature survey of 51 village-level studies, on the current trend towards social change and increased political participation among the rural populations of developing countries - covers peasant movements, modernization and cultural change, etc. Bi…

The individualized society

by Bauman, Zygmunt

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"We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own failings and weaknesses for our discomforts and defeats. And in doing so, we make…

Ideology and economic reform under Deng Xiaoping, 1978-1993

by Zhang, Wei-Wei

fromPublications de l'Institut universitaire de hautes études i…

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This is a probing study of the interactions between ideological trends and economic reform in the era of Deng Xiaoping. It explores an important but frequently neglected issue in the contemporary study of China - the transformation from the orthodox anti-market doctrine into a m…

The awakening of Muslim democracy: religion, modernity, and the state

by Cesari, Jocelyne

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"Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey - cou…

The transformation of an Indian labor market: the case of Pune

by Lambert, Richard D., Ginsberg, Ralph B., Moore, Sarah J.

fromUniversity of Pennsylvania studies on South Asia

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Presents the results of studies of the Pune labour market carried out over seven years (1957-65) during which Pune underwent rapid industrialisation and rapid urbanisation. Examines the changes in labour market conditions which accompany industrial development and modernization,…

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts

by Bauman, Zygmunt

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The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is character…