Modernization theory or modernisation theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political...

Modernization theory is the predominant explanation for the emergence of nationalism among scholars of nationalism. Prominent modernization scholars,...

to modernization of 'traditional' or 'backward' societies. Scientists from various research disciplines have contributed to modernization theory. The...

lack of development in Latin America. The theory arose as a reaction to modernization theory, an earlier theory of development which held that all societies...

countries in modernizing and facilitating development in the non-West. It is often contrasted with dependency theory. The theory of modernization consists...

verify] Under this theory, any country could modernize by using Western civilization as a template. Although this theory of modernization seemed to pride...

effect of income on democracy." In "Non-Modernization" (2022), they further argue that modernization theory cannot account for various paths of political...

interest in structuralism. Modernization theory is used to explain the process of modernization within societies. Modernization refers to a model of a progressive...

Reflexive modernization Restoration ecology Sustainable development Mol, A.P.J, G Spaargaren, and D.A Sonnenfeld. “Ecological Modernization Theory: Taking...

society, but stresses how in reflexive modernization, modernity directs its attention to the process of modernization itself. The main thesis deals with the...

Shuzo Teruoka, ed. Agriculture in the Modernization of Japan, 1850-2000 (2008); Cyril Black, The Modernization of Japan and Russia (1975) Russell H. Jeffries...

he subsequently developed a revised version of Modernization theory, Evolutionary Modernization Theory, which argues that economic development, welfare...

of the elites, Seymour Martin Lipset and his modernization theory, As well as various cultural theories: that of David Landes about the special cultural...

effect of income on democracy." In "Non-Modernization" (2022), they further argue that modernization theory cannot account for various paths of political...

challenged this relationship. In "Non-Modernization" (2022), Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that modernization theory cannot account for various paths...

Developing from classical social evolutionism theories, the theory of modernization stresses the modernization factor: many societies are simply trying (or...

into a highly interdisciplinary field. World-systems theory was aiming to replace modernization theory, which Wallerstein criticised for three reasons: its...

its application of sociological and political modernization theories to German history. Modernization theory was presented by Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014)...

Latham, Michael (2000). "Modernization at War: Counterinsurgency and the Strategic Hamlet Program in Vietnam", Modernization as Ideology: American Social...

education may not lead to increased demand for democratization as modernization theory suggests: historically, most countries attained high levels of access...

much of the theories of modernization at the time. His influence was very extensive but at the same time, the concrete adoption of his theory was often...

Postdevelopment theory (also post-development or anti-development or development criticism) is a critique of the concept and practice of modernization and development...

Statecraft. Staging Growth. Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (2003) Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004)...

tensions within the political and social system, and criticizes modernization theory, contending that its argument for economic change and development...

policy of modernization to be fostered by American economic aid and growth. The book was highly influential, bringing modernization theory to prominence...

social theories such as multilineal theories of evolution (neoevolutionism, sociobiology, theory of modernization, theory of post-industrial society) and...

to Francis Fukuyama, modernization theory is the "last significant Universal History" written in the 20th century. This theory draws on Marx, Weber,...

The modernization losers thesis, or modernization losers theory, is a theory associated with the academic Hans-Georg Betz that posits that individuals...

could be interpreted as socialism. Modernization efforts were generalized by the concept of the Four Modernizations, set forth by Zhou Enlai in 1963 and...

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