Technological growth and social change [[electronic resource] ] : achieving modernization / / [by] Stanley A. Hetzler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783163103321
• Autore: Hetzler Stanley A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 1-136-25576-1; 1-315-00747-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Collana: International library of sociology. Sociology of work and organization ; ; v. 16
• Soggetti: Technology and civilization; Economic development
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; PART ONE PROCESS AND SYMPTOM; 1. Introduction; 2. The Dilemma of the Technologically Advanced Society; THE RANGE OF THE PROBLEM; Uneven Internal Development; Individual Isolation; Employment; Growing Military Control; The Family; Uncontrolled Urban Growth; Class and Race Relations; Education; Statecraft; THE FOLKLORE OF THE MATERIALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY; Economic Folklore; Commercial Folklore; Externally Directed Folklore; 3. The Dilemma of the Transitional Society; THE UNORGANIZED SOCIAL BASE; FOOD PRODUCTION INDUSTRIALIZATION; COMMERCE; EDUCATION; UNCONTROLLED POPULATION GROWTH; CONCLUSIONS; PART TWO OLD CONCEPTS; 4. Economic Hypotheses on Development; CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC VIEWPOINTS; FREE ENTERPRISE APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT; Capital Formation; Limitations of Capital Formation Hypotheses; The Search for Entrepreneurship; Recent Empirical Trials; THE CENTRALLY CONTROLLED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT; LATER SCHOOLS OF ECONOMICS; CONCLUSIONS; 5. Other Social Science Hypotheses on Development; SOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES; The General Sociological Viewpoint; Development Concepts; Hypotheses; Practical Approaches SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES; Mass ; Transformation of Personality; ANTHROPOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES; Orientation; POLITICAL HYPOTHESES; CONCLUSIONS; PART THREE NEW PERSPECTIVES; 6. Historical Trends in Production; PHASE I: BASIC PRODUCTION; General Agriculture - Its Growth Potential; Impediments to the Development of General Agriculture; Textile Production; Construction; PHASE II: FACTORY PRODUCTION; PHASE III: ELABORATIVE PRODUCTION; PHASE IV: FULL AUTOMATION; 7. Socio-technics: A New Set of Hypotheses for Development; SPECIFIC STAGES OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION; IDENTIFYING THE 'CHANGE-AGENT' TECHNIQUES, TOOLS, AND MACHINES; ROLE-PLAYING INTERACTION BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE; SUMMARY; 8. Practical Approaches in Development Planning; GENERAL PRINCIPLES - TABOOS AND IMPERATIVES; Taboos; Imperatives; ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION; Domestic Maintenance Programming; BASIS OF PROGRAMMING FOR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; Resources Evaluation; Planning Mechanization for the Traditional Type of Society; Planning Mechanization for the Transitional Type of Society; Indoctrination and Skills Development; ASSISTANCE FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES; Ecumenical Aid; Western Bloc Aid Communist Bloc Aid; Evaluation of Aid; PART FOUR ON THE HORIZON; 9. Socio-technics and Production Control; DEFINING EFFICIENCY; An Economic Model of Efficiency; A Technological Model of Efficiency; SOCIETAL VIEWPOINTS; COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY; OWNERSHIP AND PRODUCTIVITY; General Characteristics; Managerial Ownership; Ownership by Proxy; MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY; Administrative Management; Engineering Management; EXCHANGE MEDIA AND PRODUCTIVITY; Money and the Market; Credit; MEASURING THE TREND TOWARD AUTOMATION; 10. Socio-technics and Commodity Management; DISTRIBUTION; Inequalities in Distribution
• Sommario/riassunto: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.