Modernization Theory and the Formation of Modern Social Theories in England and America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joyce Appleby (San Diego State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-285 |
| Publication date | 1978-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500008938 |
| OpenAlex | W1977863751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 60 |
Modernization theory', Alexander Gerschenkron remarked recently, 'obstructs rather than promotes the understanding of processes of econo- mic change'. Far from being a startling judgement, Gerschenkron's comment only signals that another distinguished scholar has joined the theory's detractors. The marked failure of modernization theory to predict how less developed countries would react to incentives for material advance explains the growing chorus of criticism. This indeterminate response from third world peoples has quite properly raised doubts about how well we understand what is involved in the reorientation of a society's habitual practices. The blight of disconfirming evidence, according to E. I. Eisenstadt, has now led to the abandonment of hope that breakdowns in modernization would be followed by resurgences towards modernity
Abandonment (legal) · Chorus · Criticism · Economics · Epistemology · Judgement · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Commercial crisis and change in England, 1600-1642
Social Change and History
The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Structure of Social Action
Monarchy and Revolution
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
Classical Social Theory and the Origins of Modern Sociology
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Classical Social Theory and the Origins of Modern Sociology
Psychohistory versus Psychodeterminism
Europecentrism and Other Horrors
The Concept of Social Change
The Eighteenth–Century Debate on the Sovereignty of Parliament
Currency Issues to Overcome Depressions in Pennsylvania, 1723 and 1729
Mr. Robert R. Livingston's Reasons against a Land Tax
An Economic History of Russia
The Economic Growth of the Chesapeake and the European Market, 1697–1775
The Social Basis of English Commercial Expansion, 1550–1650
The Transformation of Urban Politics 1700-1765
Essays on the American Revolution
The Shaping of the Radical Consciousness in Provincial New York
Two Manuscripts by Charles Davenant
The Authorship of Sir Dudley North's Discourses on Trade
Mercantilism and the East India Trade
Surveys
Trade, Government and Economy in Pre-Industrial England
Sources of Investment Capital in the Colonial Philadelphia Shipping Industry
I. History and Ideology in the English Revolution
The Shenandoah Valley Frontier∗
The Political Works of James Harrington
The Growth of the Electorate in England From 1600 to 1715
Studies of Modernization and Sociological Theory
The Townshend Acts of 1767
This Sheba, Self
The American Revolution within America
Dearth and the Social Order in Early Modern England
A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy 1650-1750
Guide to English Commercial Statistics, 1696-1782
The Puritan Ethic and the American Revolution
Social Behavior and Changing Values in Dedham, Massachusetts, 1700 to 1775
The Rise of Protection in England, 1689-1786
The American Revolution
The Political Works of James Harrington
From Puritan to Yankee
The Economic Development of the Thirteen Continental Colonies, 1720 to 1775
John Locke, the Great Recoinage, and the Origins of the Board of Trade
Modernization and the Modern Personality in Early America, 1600-1865
Multilateralism and/or Bilateralism
The Best Poor Man's Country
The International Payments Mechanism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Slaves and Slaveowners in Colonial Philadelphia
The Southern Ethic in a Puritan World
The Concept of Ideology
From Puritan to Yankee
The Sociological Study of Ideology (1940-60)
Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of National Societies
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2025 (46) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |