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Modernization theory
About: Modernization theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14641 publications have been published within this topic receiving 232469 citations.
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01 Jun 1980
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the human element, as revealed through the Mexican workers' hopes, fears, and reactions to events of their time, including the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Abstract: Rapid change in the land and labor system in rural Mexico during the 1890s destroyed the ancestral homes of the peasantry, forcing them either onto privately owned haciendas or into the migratory labor stream. The anarchy, inflation, and fear for personal safety that resulted from the Mexican Revolution of the 1910 provided a further impetus to migratory patterns that otherwise might not have emerged, considering the people's strong ties to their ancestral land. During the same era, capitalist modernization in the United States was creating a strong demand for low-paid, unskilled labor, especially for agricultural and railroad work. Mexico's newly created class of migrant workers rushed across the border to fill this demand, setting in motion a social, economic, and political phenomenon that Lawrence Cardoso analyzed here in detail. What set this study apart, however, is the author's focus on the ' Human element," as revealed through the Mexican workers' hopes, fears, and reactions to events of their time.
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: For example, the land reform represented an example of "administrative utopia" based on the government's narrow and in many respects utopian vision of rural transformation, which inevitably resulted in its very limited practical impact on the 215 Atkinson, End, 88, 97-98; Kerans, Mind and Labor, 317, 359-362, 381; Pallot, “The Development,” 9394, 103-106.
Abstract: economic theories and general cultural assumptions rather than on systematic empirical studies. In that respect, the reform represented an example of “administrative utopia,” based on the government's narrow—and in many respects utopian—vision of rural transformation, which inevitably resulted in its very limited practical impact on the 215 Atkinson, End, 88, 97-98; Kerans, Mind and Labor, 317, 359-362, 381; Pallot, “The Development,” 9394, 103-106. 216 See, for example, Kingston-Mann, In Search. 217 The term suggested by Judith Pallot. See, for example, her Land Reform.
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TL;DR: The process of modernization in China is occurring in a context of rapid population ageing, which presents serious challenges to the tradition of reliance on fa... as mentioned in this paper, and presents serious challenge to the traditional reliance on traditional technologies.
Abstract: The process of modernization in China is occurring in a context of rapid population ageing—the reverse of the sequence in the West—and presents serious challenges to the tradition of reliance on fa...
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29 Nov 2012
TL;DR: A broad agreement exists that tourism is an effective instrument for social and economic development as discussed by the authors, however, there is no specific theoretical or practical framework of tourism for development to be found and even the key issues have remained unformulated: concept of development, tourism's contributions to development, and tourism policy and governance for development.
Abstract: A broad agreement exists that tourism is an effective instrument for social and economic development. However, there is no specific theoretical or practical framework of tourism for development to be found. Even the key issues have remained unformulated: concept of development, tourism's contributions to development, and tourism policy and governance for development. This chapter first summarizes the development paradigms held in the last decades (modernization, neoliberalism, dependency, and sustainability) vis-a-vis tourism, and then goes on to consider proposals emanating from New Institutional Economics and the Theory of Social Capital. It concludes with the results of a 2011 enquiry, involving some 60 international experts.
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