Developing cultures : case studies / edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Peter L. Berger.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harrison, Lawrence E.
Berger, Peter L., 1929-2017
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Progress > Case studies.
Social change > Case studies.
Acculturation > Case studies.
Cultural lag > Case studies.
Economic development > Case studies.
Social values > Case studies.
Developing countries > Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:xxvii, 520 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Lawrence E. Harrison
  • Some reflections on culture and development / Peter L. Berger
  • PART I. AFRICA
  • Explaining Botswana's success / Stephen R. Lewis, Jr.
  • Culture and development: questions from South Africa / Ann Bernstein
  • Culture of development in a southwestern Nigerian town / Elisha P. Renne
  • PART II. CONFUCIAN COUNTRIES
  • China's cultural renaissance / Tu Weiming
  • Japanese culture and postwar economic growth / Yoshihara Kunio
  • Values and development in Singapore / Chua Beng-Huat
  • Market development, political change, and Taiwanese cultures / Robert P. Weller
  • PART III. INDIA
  • India: how a rich nation became poor and will be rich again / Gurcharan Das
  • PART IV. ISLAM
  • Egypt as a model of development for the world of Islam / Bassam Tibi
  • Cultural matters and developmental dilemmas in Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner
  • Two halves did not make a whole: Pakistan before and after Bangladesh / F.S. Aijazuddin, with a response by Adil Najam
  • Turkey: torn between two civilizations / Yilmaz Esmer
  • PART V. LATIN AMERICA
  • The political values of development: the case of Argentina / Mariano Grondona
  • Importance of culture: the Brazilian case / Maria Lucia Victor Barbosa
  • Economic development and the evolution of national culture: the case of Chile / David E. Hojman
  • Mexico: the camel and the needle / Miguel Basáñez
  • Productive values and poverty in Venezuela / Luis Ugalde
  • PART VI. ORTHODOX / EASTERN EUROPE
  • Which past matters? Culture and economic development in Eastern Europe after 1989 / Janos Matyas Kovacs
  • Timeless identity versus another final modernity: identity master myth and social change in Georgia / Irakli Chkonia
  • Tale of two regions: Novgorod and Pskov as models of symbolic development / Nicolai N. Petro
  • Cultural change and continuity in the transition from communism: the Russian case / Archie Brown
  • PART VII. THE WEST
  • Scene from a fast-food restaurant: signs of the times in black America and the path beyond / John McWhorter
  • Ireland as the Celtic tiger: how did it happen? / Dick Spring
  • Long and winding road: the Italian path to modernization / Matteo B. Marini
  • Culture and the pursuit of success: the case of Québec in the twentieth century / Daniel Latouche
  • Spanish transition: 1975-82 / Carlos Alberto Montaner
  • Strong governance and civic participation: some notes on the cultural dimension of the Swedish model / Dag Blanck, Thorleif Pettersson.