Ghettos and Modernization
FAIN: FB-11363-72
Unaffiliated independent scholar
Martin Jerome Plax (Project Director: September 1972 to present)
To explore in depth the processes which led to the abandonment of exclusionary practices in favor of confining ones as a mode of social control in early modernizing nations, and how confinement has been institutionalized as a dominant mode in all nations affected by the political economy, the scientific attitudes, and the value systems associated with modernity.