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The Development Trajectory of Eastern Societies

Classification of the five social forms Classification of the three social forms Relationship between the “five social forms” and the “three social forms”Classification of the technological social forms Notes The purposiveness of human activities and the regularity of social development The proposition of “unity between the regularity and the purposiveness of social development” is unscientific The proposition of “the purposiveness of social development” is a view of historical teleology Marx and Engels’ critique of historical teleology The purpose of human activities is not equivalent to the “purposiveness” of social development The proposition that “social development has laws” is incompatible with the nature and characteristics of the laws of social history Correctly understanding “act according to objective laws”Notes Historical determinism, subjective choice, and their relations The classification of historical philosophy and the theoretical origins of historical nondeterminism The determinism of historical materialism The determinism of historical materialism is materialistic and dialectical The relationship between historical determinism and human agency The relationship between univocal and probabilistic determinism Relationship between historical determinism and subjective choice Freedom and necessity Relation between interpreting and changing the world Notes Historical progress and its measure The conception of historical progress Historical progress is an upward and forward movement Historical progress is tortuous and iterative Historical progress embodies both facts and values Historical progress is the dialectical unity of accumulation and transformation Historical progress is a long process The price of historical progress Essence of the price of historical progress The necessity of the costs of historical progress A scientific conception of price Correctly choosing the price Two measures of historical evaluation and their relation The shift of Marx’s focus in the historical measure In the early 1850s From the mid-1850s to mid-1870s Mid-1870s to Marx’s death Notes The integrity of Marxism The integrity of Marxism from the perspective of its social and historical conditions The integrity of Marxism based on the origins of Marxism Integrity of Marxism as based on its content The integrity of Marxism based on its historical evolution Viewing the integrity of Marxism from Marxist classics Notes Bibliography

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The Development Trajectory of the Kanpon Type and Its Pitfalls
The technology taken up here is the Kanpon type turbine, Kanpon being the Technical Headquarters of the Navy. The Kanpon type turbine was developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy about 1920 to substitute entirely self-reliant technologies for imported ones. This naval turbine provides the key to understanding...
(Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident)
Use IGOs to develop linkages across civil societies.
Empirical research has already clearly indicated that, when IGOs allow an active role to be played by NGOs, they generate positive effects on their transparency and accountability. But IGOs can also be an institutional setting in which NGOs, especially those acting in authoritarian countries, can acquire...
(Global Governance from Regional Perspectives: A Critical View)
Development trajectory of the Kanpon type and its pitfalls
The little-known pre-war accident that will be used in this chapter involved marine turbine developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, which occurred in December 1937, almost two years before the outbreak ofWWII. This accident can be used as an example through which to redefine the complex relationship...
(The Sociology of “Structural Disaster”: Beyond Fukushima)
Professional development trajectories and identities
Assumptions of development have in part relied on modernist “industrious frameworks” of “progress” that is associated with a teleological understanding of “growth” or “betterment.” Such framings of “teacher development” suffer from a simplistic interpretation of a concept suited for...
(Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching: International Narratives of Successful Teachers)
From evaluating static long-term goals to evaluating development trajectories
The three main assumptions examined in this postscript remain mostly valid. However, the analytical model used in the evaluation had other misleading assumptions that have become evident in retrospection. First, in the introduction of the chapter, we stress the importance of assessing the progress made...
(Evaluating Environment in International Development)
Future development of environmental civil society in Greater China region
In all of the three cities, we can see the divergence and convergence in the Greater China region from the dynamics between state and non-state actors in managing MSW. Taipei, Guangzhou and Hong Kong are the affluent cities with highly urbanization, and the new rising middle class has environmental consciousness...
(The Politics of Waste Management in Greater China: Environmental Governance and Public Participation in Transition)
IPE scholarship about Southeast Asia: theories of development and state–market–society relations
BonnJuego Introduction Southeast Asia is one of the most puzzling regions in the world for students ot international political economy (IPE) because of its sheer diversity and heterogeneity. The region is composed of eleven countries with different histories, languages, social and cultural characteristics,...
(The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries)
Development trajectory of China’s information resource industry
Many developed countries and regions worldwide have paid great attention to and given intensive policy support for the development of the information resource industry since the beginning of the Information Age, becatrse information resources not only can create industrial value but also can reform the...
(The Development of China’s Information Resource Industry: Theory and Evaluation)
Seeking to develop a more equitable society in both countries
As part of the development of a ‘Socialist Market Economy with Chinese Characteristics’, reducing income disparity, narrowing the gap between rich and poor, and between rural and urban areas were the policy priorities under Xi’s leadership in China. Since Xi began his first term of presidency,...
(Weathering the Storm in China and India: Comparative Analysis of Societal Transformation under the Leadership of Xi and Modi)
A summary of my career development trajectory
I am an academic with experience working in the higher education sector at one of the government colleges in my home country. Upon graduation in 2003 from the Faculty of Education at a public university, I started my career as a teacher of English language at a government primary school. I worked for...
(Developing and Utilizing Employability Capitals: Graduates’ Strategies across Labour Markets)