Download or read book Modernization written by Myron Weiner and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1966 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection, arranged in five sections, of American scholars essays on how modernisation occurs - (1) perspectives and conditions, (2) social changes and cultural changes (education, urbanization, etc.), (3) modernisation of politics, public administration, etc., (4) the economy (modernising technology, entrepreneurship, subsistence agriculture, industry and labour force, the role of the government in economic development, etc.), (5) the gap between developed and developing countries.