TY - JOUR
AU - Stephenson,John B.
AB -  Measures of Individual Modernity: Review and Commentary SAGE Publications, Inc.1972DOI: 10.1177/002071527201300201 C. MiltonCoughenour University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A. John B.Stephenson University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A. and Introduction FROM THE TIME the concept of modernity was appropriated from popular use to describe and explain aspects of contemporary social change, it has been applied to a variety of social and cultural units: societies, civilizations, cultures, communities, particular institutions, e.g., economy, polity, and family, and even concrete organizations. Within recent years we have witnessed the extension of the concept of modernity to still another unit of analysis: the individual. Social scientists have achieved more in the precise measurement of individual modernity than in the measurement of modernity of any other social or cultural unit. In this paper the attempts by Doob, Inkeles, Kahl, and Stephenson to measure individual modernity are reviewed and an attempt is made to weigh their potentials and limitations. Criticisms of these measures have mainly to do with their validity and utility from the standpoint of both theoretical and methodological considerations. Four Recent Measures of Individual Modernity 1. "Psychological Modernization"-From his African studies' Doob developed a set of scales for the measurement of "psychological modernization." Each of the 
TI - Measures of Individual Modernity: Review and Commentary
JF - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
DO - 10.1177/002071527201300201
DA - 1972-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/measures-of-individual-modernity-review-and-commentary-hLCBd9rIJN
SP - 81
VL - 13
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -