The Modernization Imperative
Bruce. Charlton
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Luton : : Andrews UK, , 2003.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (94 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover ; Contents ; Front Matter ; Title Page ; Publisher Information ; Acknowledgements; A Note on Systems Theory ; The Modernization Imperative ; Introduction; Defining Modernization ; Modern societies; Modernization and complexity; Social cohesion; Economism; 'Scissors, Rock, Paper' interdependency; The inevitability of modernization; Politicians and modernization; The desirability of modernization; The ethos of modernization; Education and Modernization; Economic drives towards educational expansion; Political drives towards educational expansion; Education in flexible abstraction. - Education and social progressPolitics and Modernization ; Modernization and democracy; Moral modularity; Morality and democracy; The priority of process; Single-issue politics and morality; Opposition to Modernization ; High status intellectuals and modernization; Environmentalism against modernization; Optimism versus pessimism; Modernization and alienation; Modernizing alienation; The Future of Modernization ; Appendix ; Systems Theory; Where do systems come from?; System boundaries; Humans as communication units; Advantages of complexity; Selection and functionality; System 'languages'. - The power of cognitive specializationRationality and selection; The modernization imperative; Back Matter ; Bibliography; Also Available
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| ISBN | 0907845525
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