Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development : East Asian Perspectives

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 de...

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Main Author Kyong-Dong, Kim (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Ethnology > Asia.
Sociology.
Economic development.
Social change.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811034671
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-3467-1
Physical DescriptionXXV, 271 p. 5 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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