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.

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 ...

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: ...

Over the years scholars have tried to analyze Korean society with overarching theories including the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxist development theory and modernization theory. But ...