Modernization theory -- the belief that industrialization and economic development lead directly to positive social and political change -- has been a subject of intense scholarly and policy interest ...

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution By Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 585 pp., $35) Ideas about what it means to be modern are soon dated.

The modernization of sin. The Vatican has reportedly updated its traditional seven deadly sins. New sins include those that the church says are becoming more prevalent in an era of “unstoppable ...

In the Infosys Modernization Radar 2022 report, 51% of respondents taking the big-bang approach frequently suffered high levels of disruption, compared to 21% of those who modernized incrementally ...

During the 1960s, Levy was best known for his writing on modernization theory. His two-volume study "Modernization and the Structure of Societies" remains as the most systematic statement of that ...

This fit in with an academic theory that had been floating around called Modernization Theory. The idea was that as nations developed, they would become more like us in the West — the ones who ...

Michael R. Lengefeld, Chad L. Smith, Nuclear shadows: Weighing the environmental effects of militarism, capitalism, and modernization in a global context, 2001-2007 ...

China's theory of modernization respects the civilizational diversity and the achievements made by other civilizations. It also promotes cultural exchanges that transcend cultural barriers, ...

Chinese modernization a major innovation in theory, practice of global modernization. By Global Times Published: Mar 06, 2024 07:40 PM. Photo:VCG. Editor's Note: ...