Modernization and Postmodernization
Title | Modernization and Postmodernization PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Inglehart |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1997-05-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691011806 |
To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on the World Values Surveys, a unique database that looks at the impact of mass publics on political and social life.
Modernization and Postmodernization
Title | Modernization and Postmodernization PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Inglehart |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 463 |
Release | 2020-06-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0691214425 |
Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy and momentum of their own. But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society leads to a basic shift in values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic political institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on a unique database, the World Values Surveys. This database covers a broader range than ever before available for looking at the impact of mass publics on political and social life. It provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population--from societies with per capita incomes as low as $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economies to authoritarian states.
Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths
Title | Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Lavin |
Publisher | Spector Books |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-11-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783959052283 |
Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects? and architecture?s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself.00Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).
The Politics of Postmodernity
Title | The Politics of Postmodernity PDF eBook |
Author | John R Gibbins |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 211 |
Release | 1999-05-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1848609396 |
What happens to politics in the postmodern condition? The Politics of Postmodernity is a political tour de force that addresses this key contemporary question. Politics in postmodernity is carefully contextualized by relating its specific sphere - the polity - to those of the economic, social, technological and cultural. The authors confront globalization and the notion of postmodernity as disorganized capitalism. They analyze the role of the mass media, the changing ways in which politics is used, the role of the state and the progressive potential of politics in postmodern times. Closing with a postscript on the future of the discipline of political science, this book offers a profound yet highly accessible account of how politics is undergoing a shift from the modern to the postmodern.
Postmodernization
Title | Postmodernization PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Crook |
Publisher | Sage Publications (CA) |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Postmodernism |
ISBN |
A comprehensive overview of postmodernization and social change, written for students of social theory, cultural studies and urban and political sociology.
Law, Modernity, Postmodernity
Title | Law, Modernity, Postmodernity PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan Edgeworth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 445 |
Release | 2019-07-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1351725610 |
This title was first published in 2003. This book examines the interrelationship between the unravelling of the post-war welfare state and legal change. By reference to theorists of postmodernity such as Zygmunt Bauman, Scott Lash and John Urry, and David Harvey, the principal argument is that contemporary law and legal institutions can be best understood as having changed in ways that mirror the recent transformation of the interventionist welfare state and its Fordist, Keynesian economic infrastructure. The key changes identified in the legal field include:- the shift toward marketized regulatory structures as reflected in privatization and deregulation, the attenuation of welfare rights, the privatization of justice, legal polycentricity, the reconfiguration of the welfare state’s social citizenship and the globalization of law. Empirical evidence from a number of jurisdictions is adduced to indicate the general direction of change.
Postmodernizing the Faith
Title | Postmodernizing the Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Millard J. Erickson |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
The dean of evangelical theologians explores six evangelical responses--both positive and negative--to postmodernism.