Westernization

About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.

The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World and Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

Abstract: The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. By Partha Chatterjee. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 173p. 20.00 paper. Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. By Esra Ozyurek. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 227p. 21.95 paper. Few leaders have been as lionized by their people decades after their deaths or have influenced their nation's political development as much as Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In the wake of World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Ataturk (an honorary title meaning “father of the Turks”) led a war of national independence, established the Turkish Republic, and introduced a series of modernizing/westernizing reforms that included secularization of the state, relative emancipation of women, and westernization of the alphabet, dress, and the legal code.

Acculturation, Internalization of Western Appearance Norms, and Eating Pathology Among Japanese and Chinese International Student Women.

Abstract: In the context of the sociocultural model of eating disorders, this study investigated the hypothesis that Westernization would be positively associated with eating pathology among non-Western wome

Introduction: Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s

Abstract: During the past two decades the discussions on world order have taken interesting turns. The collapse of the cold war constellation gave neoliberal visions of accelerating economic integration and global democratization a certain prominence within academic circles and a wider public sphere. For many observers the fall of the Berlin Wall and the removal of the iron curtain signified a future with the potential to grow into an era characterized by free trade, migration, and an ever-more tightly knit web of human interaction. Many deemed ideological fault lines and geopolitical rivalries to be outdated by the potentials that a new era of globalization brought to the international community. It was this optimistic branch of the late 1980s and early 1990s that brought widespread public attention to new programmatic terms ranging from “global village” to the “end of history” first and foremost in the United States but also in other parts of the world.1 At that time a majority of Chinese intellectuals, for example, supported a new “Enlightenment” effort, widespread Westernization and internationalization programs for their society.2 And in most countries of the former Warsaw Pact, liberal democratic parties won national elections—public endorsements to bring their societies closer to a more Western and more global world.3

Saudi Arabia: Government, Society and the Gulf Crisis

Abstract: This much-revised edition of Professor Abir's Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era now includes consideration of both Gulf Wars. Abir examines the social and political forces that have shaped Saudi Arabia, including the impact of Islam and of Westernization, drawing heavily on Saudi sources. There is also essential analysis of regional security dilemmas and of the country's prospects in the post-Gulf War era.