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Modernization and Conditions of Sustained Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

S. N. Eisenstadt
S. N. Eisenstadt
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The nature of modern society, the quality of the modern social, civil, and moral order, has been in the forefront of sociological thought and inquiry since the very beginning of sociology. This interest has been greatly reinforced by the growing preoccupation with the extension of the processes of modernization beyond their initial place of origin in Western Europe and the United States to Eastern Europe and later to Asian and African countries. The continuous processes of modernization in these societies have greatly added to the store of knowledge about the nature and variety of modern society, and they also have enabled us to reformulate many of the most crucial problems in this area.

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World Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , July 1964 , pp. 576 - 594
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1964

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2 For some complementary analysis, see also Eisenstadt, S. N., “Modernization, Divarsity and Growth,” Carnegie Faculty Seminar on Political and Administrative Development, Department of Government, Indiana University (Bloomington 1963).Google Scholar

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14 See Emerson, “Erosion of Democracy”; and Eisenstadt, “Breakdowns of Modernization.”

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16 See Eisenstadt, “Breakdowns of Modernization.”

17 See Durkheim, Emile, De la division du travail social (4th edn., Paris 1922)Google Scholar, chap. 7 and Conclusion. On the interweaving of these two types of mechanisms in primitive societies, see Fortes, M., “Ritual and Office in Tribal Societies,” in Gluckman, M., ed., Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations (Manchester, Eng., 1963), 53–89.Google Scholar On problems of application of the anthropological model, as related to these mechanisms, to more complex societies, see Eisenstadt, S. N., “Anthropological Studies of Complex Societies,” Current Anthropology, 11 (June 1961), 201–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

18 One of the best analyses of such a situation can be found in Feith, Herbert, The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia (Ithaca 1962).Google Scholar

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20 The two need not, of course, be entirely antithetical in the analysis of concrete cases, and yet they always entail great differences of emphasis. A very instructive example of such differences is the shift in the interpretation of Japanese modernization from the “class” interpretation in Norman, E. H., Japan's Emergence as a Modern State (New York 1960)Google Scholar, to the more recent “elite” interpretations in Craig, A. M., Chöshü in the Meiji Restoration (Cambridge, Mass., 1961)Google Scholar, and Jansen, Marius B., Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration (Princeton 1961).CrossRefGoogle Scholar I am also indebted here to Professor R. N. Bellah for showing me a manuscript written by him and Professor Craig on different interpretations of the Meiji revolution. Perhaps the most important conclusion that can be derived from the confrontation of these two approaches is that although, obviously, both are extremely important in any process of modernization, the conditions giving rise to each may greatly differ.

21 See Kerr, Industrialization and Industrial Man.

22 See Eisenstadt, “Initial Institutional Patterns.”

23 See Mannheim, Karl, Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction (New York 1940)Google Scholar, esp. ii; Shils, Edward A., Political Development in the New States (The Hague 1962)Google Scholar, esp. 13–38; and Feith, Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia.

24 See Eisenstadt, “Initial Institutional Patterns.”

25 Some initial attempts in this direction have been made in Eisenstadt, S. N., Essays on Sociological Aspects of Political and Economic Development (The Hague 1961)Google Scholar, esp. 19–99. See also Nash, Manning, “Some Social and Cultural Aspects of Economic Development,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, VII (January 1959), 137–51.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

26 See Eisenstadt, Essays, esp. 49–53.

27 This conclusion entails a basic reformulation of the usual approach to the problem of the relation between degrees of traditionalism and success in adaptation to modern conditions. The preceding analysis indicates that the structural features that characterize a traditional society are not in themselves necessarily the most important determinants of the degree of adjustment or adaptation to modern conditions. The important characteristics seem to be the degree of solidarity of the family and of the community, flexibility of elites and of systems of stratification, and probably other factors that are not always directly related, in a one-to-one way, to the structural, “typological” characteristics of traditional societies. They seem to exist in both more and less traditional societies, and to be more closely related to the cultural differentiations and interrelations between different subgroups that exist with the common framework of these different types of societies than to their overall structural characteristics. See Eisenstadt, Essays, ii; and Bert F. Hoselitz, “Traditions and Economic Growth,” in Braibanti and Spengler, eds., 83–113.

28 See Vogel, Japan's New Middle Classes; Feldmesser, Robert, “Toward a Classless Society?” in Inkeles, Alex and Geiger, Kent, eds., Soviet Society (Boston 1961), 573–82Google Scholar; De Witt, Nicholas, “Upheaval in Education,” Problems of Communism, VIII (January-February 1959), 25–34.Google Scholar

29 Eisenstadt, “Initial Institutional Patterns.”

30 Bellah, Robert N., Tokugawa Religion (Glencoe, I11., 1957).Google Scholar See also Geertz, Peddlers and Princes; and Parsons, Talcott, Structure and Process in Modern Societies (Glencoe, Ill., 1959).Google Scholar

31 For a fuller exposition of some of these points, see Eisenstadt, “Breakdowns of Modernization.”