This dissertation explores the interrelated ideas about race, development, and democracy circulating in a think-tank, a federation of industries, and a military college in Brazil during the late-fifties and early-sixties. These institutions brought together a “power bloc” of mil…
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This study relates philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. It compares a system of western thought and its implications for contemporary Arab-Islamic philosophy. The basis for this approach lies in the concept of worldview as rooted in the process of systematization of…
Post-Soviet central Asian states initially diverged into a variety of different regimes. Kyrgyzstan experimented with democracy, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan established authoritarian regimes, while Tajikistan succumbed to civil war. Regardless what particular form their governme…
This thesis studies the roles of the state in the modernization of Haiyuan in Ningxia, China, and analyses state power and the state use of space. Also analyzed is how ordinary people respond to state power in this state-led modernization. Focusing on the background of moderniza…
The purpose of the quantitative descriptive survey research study was to examine the relationship between the application of a performance measurement system and modernization of a public organization. Study outcomes, based on the analysis of the answers of 682 participants, rev…
Past research on marriage timing in Asia has found the modernization framework to be insufficient for explaining and understanding the processes of marriage and non-marriage. Using insights provided by research on marriage timing in Western societies, we examine the determinants…
Research on Muslim women in India has increased in recent years, but remains sparse. The few existing studies rarely examine the interplay of religion and gender on Muslim women, nor do they investigate the historical influences shaping Muslim women's lives. Using the National S…
In his influential book, Seeing Like a State , James Scott described modernity as a uniquely governmental way of looking at and ordering society. But what happens when a corporation carries out modernization? Primarily concerned with the security of the oil concession, the Arabi…
The notion of modernization has long been a hegemonic explanation for existing global and social hierarchies. Despite the apparent "failure" of "modernizing" countries to overcome a disadvantaged position in the global hierarchy through "modernizing" means, the political life in…
My dissertation thesis aims to illuminate how post-imperial Christian-Muslim oppositionality was discursively and practically constituted in a former Balkan dominion of the Ottoman Empire. I expose this process by analyzing the reshaping of individual land ownership during the p…
Muhafazakârlık ve sosyal değişme olgularını ele alan bu çalışma, Muhafazakâr Düşünce dergisi kapsamında modernleşme sürecini ve karşısında gelişen muhafazakâr refleksi soyo-kültürel temalar zemininde incelemeyi, Türk toplumunda ve özellikle Cumhuriyet döneminde belirginleşen muh…
In this age of globalization and environmental crises, the ethical desire to design appropriately for a place, its climate and people through proper technology is increasing. The major problem that results from globalization is losing the local identity. The loss of identity in …
This thesis use new data on intergenerational mobility for analyzing class mobility and equalities of opportunities in the context of the “erratic” modernization of Peruvian society. The thesis begins by proposing and validating a distinctive class schema for Peru, arguing that …
Through a case study of a Buddhist village in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, this research examines the issues of Western education and modernization within the socio-political context of Bangladesh. This study exclusively focuses on the Barua community. It adopts an anti-…
This research explores the culture of the Toraya people as a changing dynamic entity. The focus is the effect of outside forces upon the Toraya people of Indonesia and how these people live adapted their cultural rituals, roles, and statuses. Changes that were originally initiat…
The main focus of the study is to show how Islamic education in Nigeria and Kano State can be integrated with Western-style education so as to fit into existing Nigerian educational structures to benefit the millions of Nigerian Muslims, especially women, who are living in its r…
This study arose from the desire to research the effectiveness of state building policies in Afghanistan. In order to address this topic, I review state building literature and find that state building literature focuses largely on the processes of democratization instead of ins…
This study examines the Biafran secession of 1967-1970 and how the secessionist government constructed a Biafran identity in its campaign to gain international support for Biafra's permanent separation from Nigeria. The introductory chapter outlines the role of identity in Niger…
This thesis aims to re-evaluate the spread of clock towers and their relationship with modernization in the late Ottoman Empire. Rather than associate the clock towers with Westernization, secularization, or centralization, it argues that the clock towers reflected what historia…