Book Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Early Modernization Theory -- Introduction -- Modernization Theory -- Early Empirical Studies -- Smelser and Rostow -- Summary -- 2 Neo-Evolutionism and Modernization Theory -- Parsons and Neo-Evolutionism -- Variants of Modernization Theory -- Summary -- 3 Underdevelopment Theory -- Introduction -- The Classical Marxists -- Lenin and Imperialism -- Theories of Underdevelopment -- Baran and Underdevelopment -- Dependency Theory and ECLA -- Frank's Critique of 'The Sociology of Development' -- Frank and the World System -- World Systems Theory: Variations on a Theme -- Summary -- 4 Critiques of the World Systems Perspective -- Introduction -- Marxist Criticisms -- Non-Marxist Criticisms -- Developments in Underdevelopment Theory -- Modes of Production and Their Articulation -- An Illustrative Note on Class and State in Africa -- Summary -- 5 Conclusions -- Modernization Theory and Underdevelopment Theory: A Summary -- Modernization and Development -- Sociology, Modernization and Development -- The Problem of Paradigms -- The Commensurability of Perspectives -- Continuing Themes in the Sociology of Modernization and Development -- Bibliography -- Index.