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Modernization theory
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TL;DR: In the industrialized countries of Western Europe and North America the use of market-oriented economic policies has long been associated with limitations on arbitrary actions by government as mentioned in this paper. But in Latin America at present almost the opposite seems to be true.
Abstract: In the industrialized countries of Western Europe and North America the use of market-oriented economic policies has long been associated with limitations on arbitrary actions by government. In Latin America at present almost the opposite seems to be true. Brazil and Chile, and now perhaps Argentina and Uruguay as well, have strengthened an identification between insistence on market principles and the use of severe political repression. Is there a significant danger that emphasis on market-oriented economic policies causes or contributes to intensified repression ? If soand if improved economic performance and relative freedom from repression are both important goals-what should be done ? Authoritarianism and repression are extremely common in developing countries all over the world. A wealth of studies of Latin America, in particular, have argued that they are nearly inescapable features of modernization in the present historical context.' A key feature of many of these studies is that they treat repression and a stress on "orthodox" economics as joint consequences of modernization in a context of dependence on international capital and technology. This approach has great explanatory power, but it does not fit all countries equally well. It obscures
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TL;DR: Using structural linguistics, this article analyzed science education in the non-Western world and found that science education has been free from epistemological reflection because Japan regards science only as effective technology for modernization.
Abstract: Using structural linguistics, the present article offers an impartial frame of reference to analyze science education in the non-Western world. In Japan, science education has been free from epistemological reflection because Japan regards science only as effective technology for modernization. By not taking account of the world-view aspect of science, Japan can treat science as not self-referential. Issues of science education are then rather simple; they are only concerned with the question of ‘how to’, and answers to this question are judged according to the efficiency achieved for modernization.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the author refutes the theories of modernization which deny any relevance nowadays to territory as far as cultural and social life is concussed, and argues that the relevance of modernity to territory is questionable.
Abstract: Resumen en: On one hand, the author refutes the theories of modernization which deny any relevance nowadays to territory as far as cultural and social life is conc...
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