1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002357190203316

Titolo

Social change / edited, with an introduction by Robert Nisbet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Blackwell, 1972

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 270 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

303.4

Collocazione

303.4 SOC 1 (IEP VIII 119)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910252702403321

Autore

Kyong-Dong Kim

Titolo

Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development : East Asian Perspectives / / by Kim Kyong-Dong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9789811034671

9811034672

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXV, 271 p. 5 illus.)

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Sociology

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Economic development

Asian Culture

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Prolegomena: Alternative Discourses in Social Science as "Culturally Independent" Scholarship -- The Yin-Yang Dialectic and Principles of Social Change: Culturally Independent Alternative Sociological Ideas -- Selective Modernization and Alternative Modernities: In Search of an Alternative Theory -- From The "Culture of Development" Toward "Cultured" Development: An Alternative Theoretical Approach -- Postscript.

Sommario/riassunto

This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world. .