Re: basic books on modernization theory

J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite "From Modernization to Globalization", it is
a good alternative.


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From: "Carl Nordlund" <carl.nordlund@humecol.lu.se>
To: <ventrone@unina.it>; "'Baronov, David'" <dbaronov@sjfc.edu>
Cc: "'Alan Spector'" <spectors@netnitco.net>; "'WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK'"
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Subject: Re: basic books on modernization theory


I vaguely remember a similar request was done on WSN a couple of months
(years?) ago re recommendations on books on modernization theory -
perhaps check the archives?

A book that covers some nice parts of modernization theory and
development theory in general is Oman/Wignaraja's "The Post-war
Evolution of Development Thinking" (Palgrave Macmillan 1991). If I
remember correctly, it hints at the gray-scale between "modernization
theory" (Rostow, Rosenstein-Rodan, Hirschmann etc) and the dependency
school, through Raul Prebisch's and ECLA/CEPAL's use of a neoclassical
discourse (the Prebisch-Singer-theorem regarding different demand
elasticities for raw material vs manufactures).

Carl Nordlund
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Carl Nordlund, BA, PhD student
carl.nordlund(at)humecol.lu.se
Human Ecology Division, Lund university
www.humecol.lu.se


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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
>
>
>
> 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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>

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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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