modernization theory

Scientists from various research disciplines have contributed to modernization theory.

Despite recent efforts to strengthen it, modernization theory has few academic supporters today.

The former became area studies advocates, the latter proponents of modernization theory.

Modernization theories of the global system are largely based on the distinction between the traditional and the modern.

Max Weber and the modernization theory suggest that cultural values could affect economic success.

Modernization theory not only stresses the process of change but also the responses to that change.

Known widely as one of the founders of ecological modernization theory.

From the 1940s to the 1960s the state played a large role in promoting industrialization in developing countries, following the idea of modernization theory.

Modernization theory is a sociology-economic theory, also known as the Development theory.

Modernization theory and history have been explicitly used as guides for countries eager to develop rapidly, such as China.

Modernization theory is a theory used to explain the process of modernization within societies.

Contrary to modernization theory, dependency theory states that not all societies progress through similar stages of development.

Modernization theory is used to analyze in which way modernization processes in societies take place.

Modernization theory observes traditions and pre-existing institutions of primitive societies as obstacles to modern economic growth.

Modernization theory, like the Weber thesis, has its strong supporters and its strong detractors.

These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented here.

Modernization theory built upon previous ideas of sociocultural evolution from the previous century, constructing a global hierarchy based on economic development.

World-systems theory was aiming to replace modernization theory.

Modernization theory has been criticized, mainly because it conflated modernization with Westernization.

Thus, organizational interactions become more distant ("Modernization Theory").

The earliest principles of modernization theory can be derived from the idea of progress, which stated that people can develop and change their society themselves.

In socialist ideology and in its modernization theory there is a need to emancipate women in order to create social equality.

Some "modernization theories" of nationalism see the national identity largely as a product of government policy to unify and modernize an already existing state.

Alternatively, it may be quantitative, as in Seymour Martin Lipset's research on modernization theory.

The second main criticism is that modernization theory tends to ignore the role that class and other interests play in the promotion or inhibition of development.