Production of Modernization

Hemant Shah is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is coauthor (with Michael C. Thornton) of Newspaper Coverage of Interethnic Conflict: Competing Visions of America, and co-editor (with Michael Curtin) of Re-Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders.

"Shah’s extensive archival research is really the treasure of The Production of Modernization. He has unearthed and smartly contextualized dozens of fascinating documents that help to frame not only Daniel Lerner’s career but wider currents in Cold War social science that Lerner reflected. I can’t emphasize enough how impressive is the author’s close, almost obsessive reading of the archival material. The Production of Modernization makes a genuine contribution to scholarship." -Jefferson Pooley, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg College

• 1. Introduction: The Rise of Modernization Theory2. Lerner at the Psychological Warfare Division3. Lerner at Stanford: Tools of the Social Science Trade4. Lerner at Columbia: The Voice of America's Turkey Studies5. Lerner at MIT:6. After Passing of Traditional SocietyBibliographyFigureTables