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Technological Growth and Social Change Achieving Modernization
By Stanley A. Hetzler
Copyright 1969
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Technological Growth and Social Change (1969) examines the changes to society brought about by rapid developmental changes. The failure of traditional concepts to explain a rapidly changing social world calls for a redirection of effort, for the opening of new avenues of inquiry. This book represents such an attempt, and challenges the conservative Western concepts of development, classical... Read more
Part 1. Process and Symptom 1. Introduction 2. The Dilemma of the Technologically Advanced Society 3. The Dilemma of the Transitional Society Part 2. Old Concepts 4. Economic Hypotheses on Development 5. Other Social Science Hypotheses on Development Part 3. New Perspectives 6. Historical Trends in Production 7. Socio-technics: A New Set of Hypotheses for Development 8. Practical Approaches in Development Planning Part 4. On the Horizon 9. Socio-technics and Production Control 10. Socio-technics and Commodity Management
Biography
Stanley A. Hetzler
