...This chapter explains the relationship between modernisation and secularisation, with particular emphasis on how modernisation contributed to the decline of religion in the West. It presents a synthesis of various attempts to explain the general observation that modernisation undermines the power...

...This chapter focuses on the application of the secularisation paradigm, which attributes the decline of religion in Western Europe to modernisation, in the non-Western world. More specifically, it examines salient changes in the religious cultures of various developing countries in Central...

...We might reasonably expect John Broderick’s early novels, published in the first half of the 1960s, to be aligned with the orthodoxies of a postcolonial nation affirming its commitment to technological modernisation and economic subservience to the capitalist global order. His is just the type...

.... Rather than a linear story of success and modernisation, this chapter focusses on how the social security programme was negotiated and transformed owing to the challenges of the Great Depression and the rise of political radicalism in the 1930s. Special attention is paid to Germany, 1933–1938, when...

...This chapter examines the implementation of a ‘modernisation’ agenda in the Labour government's rural policy in Great Britain. It describes the work of the Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) in preparing for the 2000 Rural White Paper and the establishment of the Department...

...A growing number of writers have presented social workers as having been turned into unreflective people-processors by waves of managerialism over the last thirty years and, more recently, by the intertwining of managerialism with New Labour's modernisation agenda. This chapter outlines...

...This chapter examines socio-political modernisation, changing politics, and changing relationships between the government, market and civil society in Hong Kong over the past three decades. The first section describes how Hong Kong people experienced rapid modernisation and drastic socio-economic...

.... This book examines nationalism as a discourse against the broader background of liberalism in Mexico since the mid-1990s, and also discusses sovereignty, capitalism and free trade, Article 27 of the Constitution, state reform, modernisation, and globalisation. Calderón Hinojosa Felipe de Jesús economic...

... of ‘modernisation’; and the period since 2010, with an attempted shift towards a higher education ‘market’. It also briefly sketches the developments outside the UK. Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals CVCP development of mass higher education mass higher education Robbins Report Shattock Michael...

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...This chapter critically discusses a university’s potential to fulfil a wider role that benefits the local community, region and society as part of the civic university mission in the UK. It discusses the university modernisation agenda, the marketisation, management and neoliberalisation...

... by Dominican and Haitian as well as Japanese, English, and New Zealand authors. Some address the human and environmental costs of post-1937 modernisation, while others focus on the Dominicanized borderland and the model agricultural colonies as they were planned and envisaged ‘on paper’. These authors...

... building and identity work. The chapter broadens the perspective in two directions, arguing that both social modernisation and individual personal development have to be considered as the necessary context for the conceptualisation of competence and employability. competence employability knowledge...

... family care provisions gender ‘honour’ concepts patron–client relations ‘shame’ concepts social networks Gregg G S Hussein Taha self centred attitudes ageing modernisation theory modernisation theory income inequalities inequalities in society Rees P ageing populations employment health...

...The Introduction outlines the challenges that are being posed by public service modernisation agendas. There have been major impacts on the welfare state and democratic values in general. And there have been particularly significant impacts on people's access to justice in disadvantaged communities...

... looks at what, and how much, has changed in social care over the Blair years. It considers whether policy development reflects modernisation as conceptualised by 6 and Peck (2004), and evaluates the order of change, if any, from Conservative social policy using the Hall (1993) model. The law relating...

... detail on the main elements of the common modernisation themes, before addressing the various reforms in the domains of (un)employment, pensions, and family policies. It concludes by assessing these reforms in the light of the research question. Esping Andersen G Germany Social Democratic reforms...

...This chapter revisits the analytical framework of Chapter One of modernisation and orders of change in order to summarise the material presented. It examines views of the Blair legacy, summarises the evidence of the type and extent of change in the welfare state, places this material in a wider...

...Definitions of corruption are provided. The cultural constructions of corruption are introduced and major theoretical approaches are outlined including elite theory; the role of ‘modernisation’; market theory; sociological theories; and cultural theories. Elite theory can penetrate issues including...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the key themes of the book. It analyses David Cameron’s strategy for rebuilding Conservative electoral appeal and the evolution of his modernisation strategy from his election as leader in 2005 to the Conservative victory in the general election...