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This is Volume XVI of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1969, this study looks achieving modernization via technological development and aims at the stimulation of theoretical inquiry to provide some insight as to how new hypotheses may be arrived at through a multidisciplinary approach.

Stanley Arthur Hetzler

PART ONE PROCESS AND SYMPTOM I. Introduction 2. The Dilemma of the Technologically Advanced Society; THE RANGE OF THE PROBLEM; THE FOLKLORE OF THE MATERIALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY; 3. The Dilemma of the Transitional Society THE UNORGANIZED SOCIAL BASE; FOOD PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; COMMERCE; EDUCATION; UNCONTROLLED POPULATION GROWTH; PART TWO OLD CONCEPTS 4. Economic Hypotheses on Development CONVENTIONAL ECONOMIC VIEWPOINTS; FREE ENTERPRISE APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT; THE CENTRALLY CONTROLLED APPROACH TO DEVFLOPMENT; LATER SCHOOLS OF ECONOMICS, 5. Other Social Science Hypotheses on Development SOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES, SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES, ANTHROPOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES, POLITICAL HYPOTHESES, PART THREE NEW PERSPECTIVES 6. Historical Trends in Production PHASE I: BASIC PRODUCTION, PHASE II: FACTORY PRODUCTION PHASE III: ELABORATIVE PRODUCTION PHASE IV: FULL AUTOMATION 7. Socio-technics: A New Set of Hypotheses for Development, SPECIFIC STAGES OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION; IDENTIFYING THE 'CHANGE-AGENT'; TECHNIQUES, TOOLS, AND MACHINES; ROLE-PLAYING INTERACTION BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE; 8. Practical Approaches in Development Planning, GENERAL PRINCIPLES - TABOOS AND IMPERATIVES, ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION, BASIS OF PROGRAMMING FOR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOP[1]MENT, ASSISTANCE FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, PART FOUR ON THE HORIZON 9. Socio-technics and Production Control DEFINING EFFICIENCY, SOCIETAL VIEWPOINTS, COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY, OWNERSHIP AND PRODUCTIVITY, MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY, EXCHANGE MEDIA AND PRODUCTIVITY, MEASURING THE TREND TOWARD AUTOMATION 10. Socio-technics and Commodity Management