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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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TL;DR: This article argued that the modern state has powerful tools for managing its citizenry, rendering patrilineages a threat rather than an asset for the state, and that the advent of modern states has unravelled the underpinnings of the rigid patriliny, unleashing forces that reduce son preference.
Abstract: China, South Korea and northwest India manifest extreme child sex ratios. This paper argues that this is because their pre-modern political and administrative systems used patrilineages to organise their citizens, generating uniquely rigid patriliny and son preference. It also argues that the advent of the modern state has unravelled the underpinnings of the rigid patriliny, unleashing forces that reduce son preference. Firstly, the modern state has powerful tools for managing its citizenry, rendering patrilineages a threat rather than an asset for the state. Secondly, the modern state has brought in political, social and legal reforms aimed to challenge traditional hierarchies, including those of gender. Thirdly, industrialisation and urbanisation have ushered in new modes of social organisation, which reduce the hold of clans and lineages. Studies suggest that states can accelerate the decline in son preference, through media efforts to help parents perceive that daughters can now be as valuable as sons.

47 citations

Book
25 Oct 2010
TL;DR: The Informal Economy Dilemmas: Old and New Views Catadores and Catadoras (the Garbage Collectors) Ambulantes and Camelos (the Street Vendors) Sacoleiras and Sacoleiros (Door-to-door Saleswomen and Commercial Agents) Informality, Regulation, and Development
Abstract: The Informal Economy Dilemmas: Old and New Views Catadores and Catadoras (the Garbage Collectors) Ambulantes and Camelos (the Street Vendors) Sacoleiras and Sacoleiros (Door-to-door Saleswomen and Commercial Agents) Informality, Regulation, and Development

47 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: A review of Mexico's recent economic history can be found in this article, where the authors present an overview of the country's economic history and its path toward economic modernization and financial liberalization.
Abstract: 18 INTRODUCTION 19 CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF MEXICOS'S RECENT POLICITAL ECONOMIC HISTORY AND OF ITS PATH TOWARD ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION AND FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION (INCLUDING POLITICAL CONFRONTATIONS) 32 1.1 RECENT HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF MEXICO'S ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION 33 1.1.

47 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of the evangelical movement on American political culture during the period of the second party system, from approximately 1830 to approximately 1860, was analyzed and the authors argue that in the northern United States during that era, evangelical religion interacted with economic development to polarize the population, creating the basis for two broad alliances.
Abstract: The prominence of evangelical Christian piety is one of the major continuities in American life from colonial to national times. Indeed, for all the attention that has been devoted to the so-called Great Awakening and its effects, it seems likely that its nineteenth-century counterparts were even "greater" in their impact on American culture and politics. John M. Murrin once remarked that the Great Awakening and its legacy probably had even more to do with the Civil War than with the Revolution, and it is a perceptive comment.1 The later evangelicals became more selfconscious shapers of society and opinion than their eighteenth-century predecessors, for they increasingly strove to subject social institutions and standards to divine judgment and to "reform" that is, reshape them accordingly. The purpose of this essay is to comprehend the impact of the evangelical movement on American political culture during the period of the second party system, from approximately 1830 to approximately 1860. I will argue that in the northern United States during that era, evangelical religion interacted with economic development to polarize the population, creating the basis for two broad alliances. The members of the two alliances differed not only on questions of religion and religiously inspired reform efforts but also on questions of politics. Their disagreements shaped American society throughout the nineteenth century and beyond because the alliances offered divergent visions of how individuals and society should respond to modernization. The evangelicals were in many ways the champions of modernization, that is, of changes in the structure of society and individual personality that emphasized discipline and channeled energies by the deliberate choice of goals and the rational selection of means. Their op-

47 citations

Book ChapterDOI
22 Jul 2005
TL;DR: The post-modern critique, with its attention to difference and discourse, and its attack on the universalizing truths of Enlightenment thinking, has much to offer those who are critical of development theory and practice as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The post-modern critique, with its attention to difference and discourse, and its attack on the universalizing truths of Enlightenment thinking, has much to offer those who are critical of development theory and practice. Some Third World and Western scholars have drawn on this perspective to challenge the assumption that modernization is necessarily possible or desirable. They have questioned the belief that Third World development and westernization/modernization are synonomous and that Western political, social and economic institutions and practices (whether liberal or socialist) hold the answers to the Third World’s development problems (Escobar 1984; Ferguson 1985, 1990; Moore 1992).

47 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20231,630
20223,824
2021370
2020573
2019604