Patterns (Structures) of Modernization and Political Development

Marion J. Levy
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Marion J. Levy: Center of International Studies, Princeton University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1965, vol. 358, issue 1, 29-40

Abstract: The patterns (structures) of modernization are seen as underlying all discussions of political development. Patterns of relatively modernized and relatively nonmodern ized societies are considered as variations overlying the com mon features of any society. Degrees of modernization are de fined by the ratio of inanimate to animate sources of power. The specialization of organizations, interdependency, relation ship emphases, patterns of centralization, generalized media of exchange, and markets fit into the general structure. Bureauc racy, family considerations, and town-village interdependencies are seen as foci of differences between the relatively modernized and nonmodernized. Change in a consistent direction, family strains, problems of control, reactions, mobs, and problems of knowledge are seen as the differences it makes. Alterations of town-village imbalances, creative uses of armed forces, politics as recreation, and the trickle effect are seen as some avenues of control.

Date: 1965
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