Re: basic books on modernization theory

Scrive "Baronov, David" <dbaronov@sjfc.edu>:

> I just came across a book first published in 1989 that might fit your
> needs.
> I plan to use it in future courses.  An Introduction to the World-Sytem
> Perspective by Thomas Shannon is obviously organized around World-Systems
> theory.  However, it does a very nice job of introducing the novice reader
> to basic issues/debates in modernization theory from which sprang
> world-systems.
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> David Baronov
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> Sociology Department
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> St. John Fisher College
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> Rochester, NY
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Spector [mailto:spectors@netnitco.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:01 PM
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
> Subject: basic books on modernization theory
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> I have a student doing an independent study course on modernization.
> Basically, what I need is the titles of two or three books on modernization
> theory that explains it in simple terms. The student is not a sociology
> major and does not have a strong background in sociological theory. This is
> meant to be a basic, introductory course, and readability is an especially
> important aspect of these books.  So, if anyone can give me a few ideas,
> that would be helpful. Feel free to e-mail me privately.\
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> thanks,
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> Alan Spector
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> spectors@netnitco.net 
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There are at least three books that I would suggest. Alvin So's Social Change 
and Development : Modernization, Dependency and World-System Theories, that is 
very clear and schematic.
Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective
by Philip McMichael
and Modernization As Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation- Building" 
in the Kennedy Era (New Cold War History) -- by Michael E. Latham, which 
reconstructs the history of modernization theory treating it, appropriately, as 
 a geopolitical ideology.


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