Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing AreasSocial Science Research Council, 1960 - 378 pages This work examines the intended and unanticipated consequences of economic advancement in developing areas and the commitment of industrial labor. Both the short-term acceptance of the attitudes and beliefs appropriate to a modernized economy are discussed. |
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... ConsUMPTION by Richard H. Holton 201 Expansion of Wants via Cultural Contact 203 Composition of Consumption Expenditures 205 Page Food Clothing 205 208 Durable Goods 209 Leisure 212 xii CONTENTS.
... ConsUMPTION by Richard H. Holton 201 Expansion of Wants via Cultural Contact 203 Composition of Consumption Expenditures 205 Page Food Clothing 205 208 Durable Goods 209 Leisure 212 xii CONTENTS.
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... consumption.1 How- ever , market orientations are in some degree integrated and thus appro- priately viewed with ... consumed in a society , what proportions and which kinds " move 1 For a more detailed breakdown of the most general ...
... consumption.1 How- ever , market orientations are in some degree integrated and thus appro- priately viewed with ... consumed in a society , what proportions and which kinds " move 1 For a more detailed breakdown of the most general ...
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... consumption as a valid index of " welfare " improvement on a total or per capita basis . Acts long performed and even goods long produced may simply have been transferred to new modes of exchange . This changing relative position of the ...
... consumption as a valid index of " welfare " improvement on a total or per capita basis . Acts long performed and even goods long produced may simply have been transferred to new modes of exchange . This changing relative position of the ...
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... consumption appropriate to relatively fixed social positions . Some middle course is no doubt more nearly correct . It almost appears that the sociologists have a sounder theoretical position by inference from known principles of social ...
... consumption appropriate to relatively fixed social positions . Some middle course is no doubt more nearly correct . It almost appears that the sociologists have a sounder theoretical position by inference from known principles of social ...
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... consumption and of buying decisions . Thus it serves not only as a primary agent of cognitive and affective socializa- tion , but as a major source of maintenance of motivation . The family's budgetary and market behavior is in turn ...
... consumption and of buying decisions . Thus it serves not only as a primary agent of cognitive and affective socializa- tion , but as a major source of maintenance of motivation . The family's budgetary and market behavior is in turn ...
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achievement African agricultural analysis associated authority Baganda become behavior capital consumers consumption contractual cultural demand differential East Africa economic development economic growth employers factory forms function goals groups important increase India individual indus industrial employment industrial labor force industrial labor market industrial societies institutions involved Jamshedpur Kampala Kingsley Davis kinship labor commitment labor force labor market labor unrest limited M. N. Srinivas machine managerial ment mobility modern Moore Mossi nationalists newly developing areas Niger nomic nonindustrial norms occupational operation opportunities orientation participation patterns percent political entrepreneurs population position preindustrial prestige problems process of commitment production organization Puerto Rico recruitment relations relatively rewards role rural sector situation skill social system specific status stratification Talcott Parsons technological tend tion town trade unions traditional transition tribal turnover types Uganda underdeveloped areas urban values wage labor workers Yatenga