Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs.

Developing a unified definition of digital transformation

This article compares the declines in fertility in Europe and the Third World. Lower levels of fertility were largely due to the adoption of innovative behavior within marriage. So far this transformation of reproduction has been monotonic and rapid. Socioeconomic development is associated with the timing of the onset of the transition and is responsible for differences among groups during the transition, although it is not yet possible to rule out alternative explanations such as ideational or institutional change. The pace and pervasiveness of the declines, however, suggest that a mechanism of diffusion is involved.

The fertility transition: Europe and the Third World compared.

Fur Forschungen auf dem Gebiete staatlicher Politik und Verwaltung gibt es gegenwartig keine unbestrittenen theoretischen Grundlagen. Die Zeit, in der die Praktische Philosophie mit Ethik und Naturrecht als selbstevidenten Ausgangspunkten Fragen und Antworten konturierte, ist vorbei. „Macht“ wird als Grundbegriff nur noch zogernd genannt und dann nur fur einen partiellen Aspekt des Ganzen. „Staat“ ist eine sehr unbestimmte, analytisch wenig brauchbare Kategorie geblieben mit der Gefahr, das, erganzend und verdichtend, Tradition und Vorurteil einfliesen. „Government“ leidet an der entgegengesetzten Schwache, ins Institutionelle und Organisatorische prazisiert und so nicht mehr aus sich heraus verstandlich zu sein.

Soziologie des politischen Systems

Various forms of participation in the global system have been hypothesized to distort the structure of industrialization in developing countries, influencing the relations between industrial capital, labor, and output. We operationalize Kuznets's (1965) theoretical definition of industrialization utilizing energy consumption per capita, percent of the labor force employed in industry, and percent of GDP accountedfor by industry, to test several predictions about the effects of a country's involvement in the global system on the structure of its industrialization. We first estimate a measurement model for 1970 that includes these three basic indicators as influenced by the latent variable of industrialization. Elaborations of the basic model allow us to measure the influence of the world system on the structure of industrialization. Types of goods imported and exported affect the structure of industrialization; position in the world system and direct foreign investment have no net direct effects. A Marxist-Leninist regime has an independent influence on the structure of industrialization in some years. We replicate the model using data from 196S, 1980, and 1986.

National industrial structure and the global system

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to add to the understanding of humility‐based economic development and entrepreneurship among the Amish – a religious group – in the USA, whose culture values asceticism, frugality, thrift and work, as well as humility.Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an ethnographic research study.Findings – Amish adults teach their young that work is pleasurable. In order to maintain their values, the Amish try to avoid close contact with people who do not hold the same traditions. Furthermore, due to religious discrimination in the past, the Amish often exhibit a mistrust of outsiders. The primary motive of self‐employment among the Amish is neither profit nor prestige, but rather the maintenance of cultural values, separately from mainstream society such as to emphasise humility over pride. Self‐employment is perceived as much a social activity as an economic activity, and very importantly, it is compatible with religious beliefs.Practical implications – Given the...

Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs.

Citations

Developing a unified definition of digital transformation

The fertility transition: Europe and the Third World compared.

Soziologie des politischen Systems

National industrial structure and the global system

A humility‐based enterprising community: the Amish people in Lancaster County

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