Modernization theory

About: Modernization theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14641 publications have been published within this topic receiving 232469 citations.

Americanization and its limits : reworking US technology and management in post-war Europe and Japan

Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan PART I: EXPORTING THE AMERICAN MODEL? Chapter 2: Americanization: Ideology or Process? The Case of the US Technical Assistance and Productivity Program Chapter 3: Transplanting the American Model? US Automobile Companies and the Transfer of Technology and Management to Europe after the Second World War PART II: REWORKING US TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT: NATIONAL, SECTORAL, AND FIRM-LEVEL VARIATIONS A: BRITAIN AND SWEDEN Chapter 4: Americanizing British Engineering? Strategic Debate, Selective Adaptation, and Hybrid Innovation in Post-War Reconstruction Chapter 5: Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Lesson Chapter 6: Creative Cross-Fertilization and Uneven Americanization of Swedish Industry: Sources of Innovation in Post-War Motor Vehicles and Electrical Manufacturing B: FRANCE AND ITALY Chapter 7: A Slow and Difficult Process: The Americanization of the French Steel Producing and Using Industries after World War II Chapter 8: Remodelling the Italian Steel Industry: Americanization, Modernization, and Mass Production Chapter 9: Mass Production or 'Organized Craftsmanship'? The Post-War Italian Automobile Industry C: GERMANY AND JAPAN Chapter 10: The Long Shadow of Americanization: The German Rubber Industry and the Radial Tire Revolution Chapter 11: The Evolution of the 'Japanese Production System': Indigenous Influences and American Impact Chapter 12: American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Reconfiguring the Japanese and German Steel Industries after World War II

Social Care and the Modern Citizen: Client, Consumer, Service User, Manager and Entrepreneur

Abstract: Since coming to power, New Labour has embarked on a programme of modernization. Few areas of state activity have been more visibly subjected to New Labour’s modernization agenda than the personal social services. Local authority social services departments have largely ceased to exist as separate organizational entities. However, modernization has also required that the relationship between state and citizen be reconstructed. This is evident in New Labour’s vision for adult social care which envisages a move towards individual budgets. The individualizing nature of such schemes may be thought hard to reconcile with the discourse of integration and partnership prominent elsewhere. However, a key linking concept is that of ‘person-centredness’. It is often assumed that this simply means that public services become more flexible to meet the needs of ‘the person’. This paper uses the example of direct payments to demonstrate how modernization also requires flexibility of ‘the person’. It would appear that inherent in New Labour’s project of modernization is the assumption that the modern citizen should be both managerial and entrepreneurial. What were once public responsibilities are being transferred to the individual. The implications for the users of adult social care are discussed.

Women and Modernization Theory: A Decade of Feminist Criticism

Abstract: The literature on women's roles in economic and political development, and on the impact of development policies on women, illuminates both the process of modernization and the nature of male-female relations. Three main kinds of approaches-liberal modernization theory and its feminist critiques, socialist approaches and their feminist critiques, and an eclectic “female sphere” position that emphasizes the need to replace male-dominated theory and practice with female experience and values-are discussed. Each approach has a distinct view of the causes, consequences, and significance of women's inferior status during modernization, and each proposes different strategies of change. The clarification of theoretical differences suggests new opportunities for productive research with implications for public policy.

Development economics : from the poverty to the wealth of nations

Abstract: 1. A Theoretical Framework for Economic Development 2. A Comparative Perspective on Developing Economies 3. Population Growth and the Constraint of Natural Resources 4. Breaking the Resource Constraint 5. Capital Accumulation in Economic Development 6. Patterns and Sources of Technological Progress 7. Income Distribution and Environmental Problems 8. Market and State 9. The Role of Community in Economic Modernization 10. Tradition and Modernization: A Concluding Remark

Science and polity in France at the end of the old regime

Abstract: By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.