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, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3467-1
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.