Becoming modern : individual change in six developing countries / Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith

Acknowledgement
Contents

Part I : The fundamentals
1. Introduction
2. Toward a definition of the modern man
3. The research design and sample structure
4. The conduct of the fieldwork

Part II : Measuring individual modernity
5. Two case studies
6. Constructing the OM scale: an overall measure of modernity
7. The content of OM: the concept of individual modernity reexamined in the light of empirical evidence
8. The social correlates of individual modernity

Part III : Contexts and causes of modernization
9. The school as a context for modernization
10. Modernity and the mass media
11. The factory as a school in modernity
12. Factory modernity
13. The role of agricultural cooperatives
14. Urban nonindustrial employment
15. The quantity and quality of urban experience
16. Rural versus urban origin
17. Home and school background

Part IV : Summary and conclusion
18. The behavioral manifestations of individual modernity
19. An overviewed: the relative and total impact of the explanatory variables
20. The process of individual modernization
21. Summary and conclusions on the social significance of individual modernization

Appendix
Includes bibliographical references and index