Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Conference; The Contributors; PART 1 MODERNIZATION THEORY: FRAMEWORKS AND ISSUES; 1. Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies; 2. Comparative Methodological Approaches in the Study of Modernization; 3. Socioeconomic System as a Variable in the Modernization Process; PART 2 ASPECTS OF CHANGE: SPECIAL FACTORS AND CONCEPTS; 4. Changes in the Nature of Ethnicity: From the Primordial to the Organizational; 5. Modernization and Development Potential of Traditional Grass Roots Peasant Organizations
6. Structures of Knowledge Use in Modernization: Professions, Technology, and Moral Order7. Modernization, Everyday life, and Social Roles: Benefits and Costs of life in ""Developed"" Societies; 8. The Rate of Social Change and Modernization; PART 3 CASE STUDIES: MODERNIZATION, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND SOLIDARITIES; 9. Socioeconomic Development Plans and Individual Satisfaction in Libya; 10. Urbanization and Modernization: The Other Side of the Coin; 11. Modernization Research in Culturally Segmented Societies: A Peruvian Experience
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12. Modernization or Americanization? The Concept of Modernity and American CultureIndex
