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Modernization

  • Modernization refers to a model of a progressive transition from a ‘pre-modern’ or ‘traditional’ to a ‘modern’ society.
  • Modernization theory attempts to identify the social variables that contribute to social progress and development of societies, and seeks to explain the process of social evolution.
  • Modernization theory is subject to criticism originating among socialist and free-market ideologies, world-systems theorists, globalization theory and dependency theory among others.
  • Modernization theory not only stresses the process of change but also the responses to that change.
  • It also looks at internal dynamics while referring to social and cultural structures and the adaptation of new technologies.
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