Social Evolution, Economic Development, and Culture: What It Means to Take Japan Seriously

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Rohlen ◽  
Ronald Dore ◽  
D. Hugh Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Evolution

scholarly journals ‘Old Townism’: A Generational Discord

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Derrick A. Chondo ◽  
Mugwima B. Njuguna ◽  
Gerryshom Munala
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Demographic Composition ◽  
Sense Of Ownership ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Motorised Transport ◽  
Over Time

The heritage space of Old Town Mombasa is undergoing social evolution in terms of the demographic composition and the changing desires of the varying generations. The study sought to measure the perceived correlation between motorised transport, the veritable exemplification of misconstrued development, and conservation efforts within the Old Town heritage space. The qualitative analysis indicates that the top-down approach and limited economic development over time have left the younger generation of local residents lacking a sense of ownership and disparity with conservation objectives. The study recommends social re-engineering that will capture the ideologies of ‘Old Townism’ and create a beneficial sense of belonging.

scholarly journals Five Freedoms and their Implications for a Less Developed National Economy

Ekonomika ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Čičinskas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Five Freedoms

The article deals with the issue of the growing role of knowledge as a production factor and its implications for a national economic development. A review of liberalization of goods and services, capital and, however highly selective, labour movement leads to the conclusion that although liberalization extends possibilities for all participating countries to speed up their economic development it does not necessarily serve as an instrument for narrowing the development gap. Deep changes in production processes, linked with rapid changes in information and communication technologies, expose the growing role of knowledge which becomes a separate factor of production. Can knowledge play a role of a factor that could preferentially assist less developed countries in closing the gap in their economic and social evolution? The analysis shows that it rather cannot because the processes and procedures of international political economy are put in action for still the same economic and political goal - to preserve the leading role of developed countries in the global community. Less developed countries, including nations in transition, cannot rely on implementation of all five freedoms in cross-border economic relations, when they aim to narrow the developmental gap; special measures of economic policy. both on the national and international scale, are needed to solve the problem.

Modernization Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Goorha
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
Stochastic Framework ◽  
Social Modernization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Modernization theory studies the process of social evolution and the development of societies. There are two levels of analysis in classical modernization theory: the microcosmic evaluations of modernization, which focuses on the componential elements of social modernization; and the macrocosmic studies of modernization focused on the empirical trajectories and manifest processes of the modernization of nations and their societies, economies, and polities. However, there are two key sources of problems with classical modernization theory. The first is the determinism implied in the logic of modernization, while the second relates to the specific development patterns that modernization theory must contend with. A contemporary theory on modernization relates structural change at a higher level of analysis to instrumental action at a lower level of analysis, doing so within a stochastic framework rather than the deterministic one that classical modernization theory implied. In addition, the refocused attention of social scientists on the process of development has led to a renewed interest in the characterization of the relationship between economic development and democratization. The transformation of knowledge into economic development can be examined by looking at the weightless economy—a collection of “weightless” knowledge products such as software, the Internet, and electronic databases. It is closely connected to a weightless political concept called the credible polity, which is a government that creates institutions that credibly protect property rights and are also transparent in their functioning to all members of its society.

Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture: What It Means to Take Japan Seriously

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Bernard Bernier ◽  
Ronald Dore ◽  
D. Hugh Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Evolution

scholarly journals Territorial Resources of Baikal Zone: Project Development Methodology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Олег Архипкин
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Sectoral Structure ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
State Corporation ◽  
Environmental Feasibility ◽  
Effective Use

The main goal of the study is to form the methodological approaches in order to create a unified concept of socio-economic development of the territorial resources of the Baikal zone in terms of severe environmental restrictions; study and analysis of inertial factors; current trends in the transformation of the territorial and sectoral structure of the Baikal zone as a taxonomic subregion of the Baikal and Transbaikalia territory It was revealed that the main dominant in relation to the territorial resources is environmental protection. This limits both at present and in the future the effective use of the resource potential of the territory, since the methodology of the program of economic, economic and social evolution of the territory has not been formulated yet in the paradigm of the “new” economy where the traditional resources acquire new qualities via innovative technologies, including the quality of environmental feasibility. The article defines a set of industries that has been identified and whose development in Industry 4.0 and Agricilture 4.0 format, not disrupting the homeostasis of the territory, can serve as attractors of the socio-economic development of the unique territory of the Baikal zone. The article justifies that there is a necessity to distinguish the Baikal zone into “subadministrative” district in relation to the Irkutsk Oblast and Republic within the aquatic regions of Lake Baikal. The creation of the scientific and methodological Baikal center at the federal level, the transfer of managerial functions of the Baikal zone to a state corporation with the authority to administer a territory with quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions will help to solve the problems. The proposals about sources of financing for the implementation of the proposed Concept of socio-economic development of the Baikal zone are presented in the article.

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