The Fate of Personal Adjustment in the Process of Modernization
Alex Inkeles,David Horton Smith +1 more
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This article is published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.The article was published on 1970-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 67 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Modernization theory.read more
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The Density of Acquaintanceship: An Overlooked Variable in Community Research?
TL;DR: This paper found that a marked decline in the density of acquaintanceship did in fact lead to significant consequences in areas other than psychological functioning, such as control of deviance, socialization of the young, and care for the community's weaker members.
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Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
TL;DR: The Project on the Social and Cultural Aspects of Economic Development at Harvard's Center for International Affairs interviewed 6,000 men from six developing countries to study the impact on the individual of his exposure to and participation in the process of national and economic modernization as discussed by the authors.
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Acculturative Stress: The Role of Ecology, Culture and Differentiation
John W. Berry,Robert C. Annis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the hypothesis that the psychological response to social change would vary as a function of both the acculturative pressures brought to bear on a community, and the traditional cultural and behavioural features that characterize the community.
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The Poverty of Cities in Developing Regions
Martin Brockerhoff,Ellen Brennan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used indicators of children's status and level of infant mortality to compare wellbeing across cities of one million or more residents and smaller settlements within developing regions, and found that sustainable development of large cities is dependent not only on efficient management good governance and sufficient resources but also related to cities size and their rate of population growth.
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Urbanization and mental health in developing countries: a research role for social scientists public health professionals and social psychiatrists.
TL;DR: The determinants, extent and outcome of the association between urbanization and mental health requires multi-disciplinary research by social scientists, social psychiatrists and public health professionals.
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Mental Health in the Metropolis
Raymond W. Murray join(,Leo Srole,Thomas S. Langner,Stanley T. Michael,Marvin K. Opler,Thomas A. C. Rennie +5 more