Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-148) and index.
Modernization and modernity -- The classic theory of modernization: modernization of traditional Third World societies -- Critiques of the classic theory of modernization and alternative approaches -- Modernity and its future -- Globalization and modernity.
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This text provides a new approach to examining questions of modernization and modernity. It overhauls existing theories and concepts and applies them to the new social and economic conditions that define our age.