From Modernization to Globalization Perspectives on Development and Social Change

by Roberts, J. Timmons; Hite, Amy Bellone

• ISBN13: 9780631210979
• ISBN10: 0631210970
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Why are some countries poor? What can they do to turn their situations around? What happens to countries and individuals when they move towards being "modern"? What does it mean to "develop" and be "modern" anyway? What are the social effects of the processes of worldwide economic, cultural, and political integration called globalization? From Modernization to Globalization is a reference for scholars, students and development practitioners on the issues of processes of social change and development in the 'Third World'. It provides carefully excerpted samples from both classic and up-to-date writings in the development literature, as well as, a general introduction. Part One reviews formative ideas on the transition to modern society with brief readings from classical theorists. The second part addresses the modernizationists' discussion of how development changes people. The response from dependency and world-system theorists is reviewed in Part Three. The final section includes eight of the most influential writings on the social effects of globalization. Together, this represents an unprecedented compilation important of writings on international development.

Author Biography

J. Timmons Roberts is Associate Professor in Sociology and Latin American Studies at Tulane University. His research examines the social and environmental impacts of globalization. He has published articles and essays in The Geographical Review, World Development, Current Sociology, and the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.

Amy Hite is Visiting Instructor in the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	viii
Acknowledgments to Sources	x
Editors' Introduction	1	(24)
Part I Formative Ideas on the Transition to Modern Society	25	(56)
Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labor (1844)	27	(10)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Division of Labor in Society (1893)	37	(30)
Emile Durkheim
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905); The Characteristics of Bureaucracy (1920); and Science as a Vocation (1919)	67	(14)
Max Weber
Part II How Does Development Change People? Modernization Theories and the Intellectual Roots of the Development Project	81	(76)
Evolutionary Universals in Society (1964)	83	(17)
Talcott Parsons
The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960)	100	(10)
W. W. Rostow
A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968)	110	(9)
Oscar Lewis
The Passing of Traditional Society (1958)	119	(15)
Daniel Lerner
Making Men Modern: On the Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries (1969)	134	(10)
Alex Inkeles
The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics (1971) and Political Order in Changing Societies (1968)	144	(13)
Samuel Huntington
Part III Blaming the Victims? Dependency and World-Systems Theories Respond	157	(98)
The Development of Underdevelopment (1969)	159	(10)
Andre Gunder Frank
Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972)	169	(10)
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in Latin America (1977)	179	(11)
Alain de Janury
Carlos Garramon
The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979)	190	(20)
Immanuel Wallerstein
The Effects of International Economic Dependence on Development and Inequality: A Cross-National Study (1975)	210	(19)
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America (1994)	229	(26)
Gary Gereffi
Part IV Attempts to Understand Globalization and its Social Effects	255	(118)
The New International Division of Labor in the World Economy (1980)	257	(17)
Folker Frobel
Jurgen Heinrichs
Otto Kreye
Globalization: Myths and Realities (1996)	274	(18)
Philip McMichael
Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation (1992)	292	(6)
David Harvey
Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (1997)	298	(8)
Dani Rodrik
Gender, Industrialization, Transnational Corporations and Development: An Overview of Trends and Patterns (1995)	306	(22)
Kathryn B. Ward
Jean Larson Pyle
Development after Ecology (1995)	328	(12)
Bob Sutcliffe
Social Movements and Global Capitalism (1995)	340	(13)
Leslie Sklair
Neoliberalism and the Sociology of Development: Emerging Trends and Unanticipated Facts (1997)	353	(20)
Alejandro Portes
First-Hand Resources on Development: Web Sites of Development Agencies and Groups	373	(2)
Further Reading	375	(3)
Index	378