Populations of different societies are enormously differing in their average intelligence scores. Intelligence scores humans from developing countries lower than those developed countries. The intelligences populations industrialized have been continuously growing for more 100 years. These two groups phenomena interconnected to each other. While higher intellectual levels bound the rate cultura...

The article attempts a regional measurement of the socio-cultural modernization population based on field observations and results in-depth interviews with local in Uzbekistan southern Kyrgyzstan. Expedition research route: Osh — Kokand Tashkent Samarkand Bukhara. For modernization, following groups indicators were used: “characteristics cultural landscape” (for example, layout settlements, hom...

In resource-limited settings, the choice between utilizing biomedical health services and/or traditional healers is critical to the success of the public health mission. In the literature, this choice has been predicted to be influenced by three major factors: knowledge about biomedical etiologies; cultural modernization; and rational choice. The current study investigated all three of these pr...

A relatively new way of framing network industries developments is by use of literature on the coherence of institutions and technology. We use the conceptual framework of coherence literature to explore the possible links between modernization and coherence and focus on the historical developments of the Dutch electricity sector. We discuss a number of these historical examples to illustrate t...

In Madagascar, the constellation of taboos serves as a form of informal regulatory institution and is foundational to Malagasy culture, regardless of class, ethnic group affiliation, and educational background. Many researchers have credited rapid social change as a crucial mechanism for disturbing taboos. Others suggest that taboos are innately historical. However, very little empirical resear...

The article considers the reforms of Peter I from standpoint historical sociology and institutional economic theory with aim to identify features Peter's modernization its role in forming Russia’s path dependence, this purpose is realized by comparing it Stalin's modernization. study rests on division into two types:adaptation westernization models. This constitutes methodological basis allows ...

How many millions of lines of code written for business applications more than 20 years ago are still being sustained for a variety of political and financial reasons—and at what risk and cost? Many of those legacy applications have been maintained with various forms of IT life support—emulators, code wrappers, virtualization—far too long, and should have been allowed to die a natural death yea...