One World Emerging? Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies

Alex Inkeles is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

• List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Part 1 - General Perspectives; 1. The Emerging Structure of World Society; A Set of Basic Concepts and a Historical Excursus; The Recent Modern Era; The Main Elements of Convergence; Conclusion; 2. Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies; A Set of Hypotheses and Propositions; Forms of Convergence; Forms of Divergence; Units, Levels, and Time; Part 2 - Comparing Nation-States; 3. Were the Soviet Union and the United States Converging?; Some Features of Social Structure in the United States and the Soviet Union; Problems in Comparative Structural Analysis; 4. Modernization in India and Other Developing Countries; Thinking About Modernity; Five; Qualities of a Modern Nation; Modernity in Organizations and Institutions; On What Makes an Individual Modern; 5. The Generalist Meets the China Specialist; Disentangling Chinese Culture and Leninism-Maoism; Identifying Processes of Systematic Change in China; Looking to the Future; Holding Firm While Bending with the Wind; Part 3 - Focus on Institutions: School and Family; 6. Convergence and Divergence in Educational Systems; The Dimensions of Educational Change; Conclusions; 7. Modernization and Family Patterns; Convergence and the Family; Demographic Indicators; Family Structures; Family Dynamics; Convergent and Divergent ForcesConclusion; Part 4 - Focus on Process; 8. Social Stratification: National Comparisons of Occupational Prestige; The Comparability of Research Designs; The Comparability of Occupational Prestige Hierarchies; Summary and Conclusions; 9. Communication: Linking the Whole Human Race; The Great Transformation; The Content of Worldwide Communication; Overcoming the Translation Barrier and Communicating Without Words; Summary and Conclusion; 10. A Century of Due Process Guarantees Worldwide; What Is Procedural Due Process and Why Is It Important?; Why Study Constitutions?; Theoretical Orientations and Hypotheses; Study Design and Sampling; Analysis of the Data; Conclusion; Appendix.