Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries

ISBN-10: 0674063759
ISBN-13: 9780674063754
Series: Becoming Modern
Pages: 437
Language: English
Published: 1974
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Authors: Alex Inkeles, David Horton Smith

Description

This is a valuable and fascinating book valuable because of the findings it presents, fascinating because of the way it presents them. The subject of Becoming Modern is the modernization process in six developing nations (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Bangladesh). The method is to survey about a thousand men, aged 20-30, in each of these lands. The goal is to demonstrate that a modern man, identifiable by his attitudes toward different aspects of life, does indeed exist, and to find out what factors encourage the transformation from traditional to modern. -The New Leader