South Korean Development in Wider Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2899707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R P Dore, Rosemary Dore (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2756298 |
| OpenAlex | W2332284966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
ANY ATTEMPT look at the of South Korea in some broader perspective has face the obvious temptation of talking about the present stage of Korean Today few people would actually admit consciously believing that development can be seen as a unilineal process, that one can talk of indexes or of stages in a manner which implies that all societies go through the same, regular, predetermined sequence of change, that the international community can be seen as a kind of marathon race, with all the runners strung out along the track, some further ahead than others, but all going in the same direction-all, in fact, preprogrammed run along the same straight line. For some kind of inevitability and predetermination is implicit in any definition of development or modernization which seeks give those terms an objective and substantive content so that one can say That is, or That is not 'true' development. Thus, although traditional unilineal theories of with their hoary concepts and premises of immanence, continuity, directionality, necessity and uniformitarianism 1 (to quote Nisbet's resounding denunciation of them) are now generally discredited, many people still go on using the words development and modernization as if some sort of unilineal-or perhaps converging, or at least unidirectional-trends in social change were observable. I do not think that is helpful. I prefer talk about economic growth when I mean growth, use the word development in a frankly subjective sense mean a change in the structure of society for the better-by some explicit value-standard of what makes one state of society better than another, and use modernization only as a noun formed from the transitive verb to modernize, meaning the efforts of, usually political, leaders of a country that considers itself in some sense backward (behind in the imputed marathon race) transform
Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Artificial Intelligence · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Computer Science · Japanese History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 1991 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |