Modernization theory and the Cold War

In this article the structural, political and intellectual context in which a specific discourse of development emerged is examined. In the context of the Cold War, the prolonged effort of American intellectuals in advising and attempting to redirect the process of development in India and its consequences for a particular version of modernization theory is analyzed. A general sociology of knowledge approach is deployed to examine the complex configuration of events that contributed to a specific discoursed that owes its intellectual lineage to the Comtean vision of social science

Cold war · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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