The aim of this subject is to provide students with an understanding of the processes of modernisation and social change in a comparative context using case studies in countries of Western Europe, Latin America, East and South-East Asia. The lectures highlight a number of key issues, e.g. whether the processes of social change are universal or specific; the consequences of modernisation in and for the economy, politics, society, culture and ideology of non-Western societies and whether the established Eurocentric analytical models are still useful in understanding the modern world. Students gain an understanding of differing interpretations of modernisation flowing from various relations of power and the multiplicity of views regarding the meaning and significance of modernisation.

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Footnotes:
1 This subject is for undergraduate students only - graduate students refer to 50175 Comparative Social Change.

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