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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Chapter I. The Modernization of Values -- Chapter II. The Operational Definition of Modernism -- Chapter III. Who Are the Modern Men? -- Chapter IV. Modern Values, Education, and Occupation -- Chapter V. Modern Values and Fertility Ideals -- Chapter VI. Personal Satisfaction and Political Attitudes -- Chapter VII. Work Attitudes -- Chapter VIII. Conclusions: Modernism and Development -- Appendix A. Socio-Economic Status -- Appendix B. Fathers and Sons: Intergenerational Mobility -- Appendix C. Portuguese Translation of Value Scales -- Appendix D. Spanish Translation of Value Scales -- Bibliography -- Index

Some men become symbols of an intellectual epoch, partly because they helped to create it and partly because they integrated and expressed so powerfully the themes that others of their time were emphasizing. Gino Germani was the outstanding symbol of the emergence of empirical sociology in Latin America in the two decades following World War II.

One of the most rapid and thorough intellectual revolutions in recent times took place in Latin America during the last decade. In the early 1960's the notion of "development" (desarrollo) still had an almost religious connotation to it, among intellectuals as well as politicians in Latin America. Today it is overwhelmingly decried as "developmentalism" (desarrollismo), an ideology-serving the interests of U.S. imperialism and serving to obfuscate the realities of exploitation. This dramatic change has far-reaching political implications. The present article, which Dr. Kahl, Professor of Sociology at Cornell, has adapted from his book Modernization, Exploitation and Dependency (soon to be published by Transaction Books), traces the change in sociology, a strategically important field for Latin Americans' self-interpretation. Its focus is on the work of two men who today are the most important Latin American sociologists, Pablo Gonzalez Casanova of Mexico and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil.

A reprint of SA 1432/B8746a.