Modernization theory
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modernization-theory-173-8743401
title:
Modernization theory
text:
Modernization theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic. The "classical" theories of modernization of the 1950s and 1960s, most influentially articulated by Seymour Lipset, drew on sociological analyses of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons. Modernization theory was a dominant paradigm in the social sciences in the 1950s and 1960s, and saw a resurgence
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Explanation for the process of modernization within societies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernization_theory
date created:
2004-10-30T14:32:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T06:13:14Z
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