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Indlæser... Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War Americaaf Nils Gilman
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Because it provided the dominant framework for "development" of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the most important constructs of twentieth-century social science. In Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America Nils Gilman offers the first intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching and often unintended consequences. After a survey of the theory's origins and its role in forming America's postwar sense of global mission, Gilman offers a close analysis of the people who did the most to promote it in the United States and the academic institutions they came to dominate. He first explains how Talcott Parsons at Harvard constructed a social theory that challenged the prevailing economics-centered understanding of the modernization process, then describes the work of Edward Shils and Gabriel Almond in helping Parsonsian ideas triumph over other alternative conceptions of the development process, and finally discusses the role of Walt Rostow and his colleagues at M.I.T. in promoting modernization theory during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. By connecting modernization theory to the welfare state liberalism programs of the New Deal order, Gilman not only provides a new intellectual context for America's Third World during the Cold War, but also connects the optimism of the Great Society to the notion that American power and good intentions could stop the postcolonial world from embracing communism. No library descriptions found. |
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That said, Gilman is as interested in the institutional arrangements by which the new behavioristic social science was spread, with modernization theory being only one aspect of the whole. The most poignant thing is how the whole apparatus just folded their tents at the end of day, as by 1970 it made no sense to be trumpeting the United States as anyone's end goal, considering how many dreams had been shattered by Vietnam and the failures of mild social democracy at home.
Still, as much as Gilman wants to chide the modernization thinkers of the high Cold War for their sense of self-congratulation, their blinkered outlook, and their tacit authoritarianism, they were at least trying to do good. In fact, Gilman pronounces something of a curse on all the current players (neocons, globalizers, dependency-theory mavens, etc,) for failing to dream a great dream of world culture, and proposes that the new great dream is to put at the forefront personal emancipation as a goal, and building the institutions that would faciliate such an end. (