Modernization and social change

Sixteen papers that constitute this book present the reflections of Scholars of diverse orientations on the most burning problem of the twentieth century-what do we understand by the concept of modernization and how can we fathom it. As an editor of this volume, I have tried to select only those articles which address to these basic aspects of modernization in an effort to provide the reader with a comprehensive view. All the contributors of this volume, you will see, have scholarly interest in modernization. Obviously, this anthology has not been able to cover all as pects of modernization but even in their limited incursion into subject the contributors. have done their job. For those who wish to know in more detail, other writings by the contributors and vast array of other works are listed in the body of the book.

This volume is intended to serve as a reader for both under-graduate and graduate students who offer a special paper of the sociology of development and researchers engaged in its empirical investigations in the Universities and Institutes of higher learning. The articles of each section cover the larger context of the particular area to which they pertain. If readers prefer they can use it as a supplement to a standard textbook, selecting from among the readings those that correspond to the topics in that textbook.