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Modernization theory

About: Modernization theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14641 publications have been published within this topic receiving 232469 citations.


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TL;DR: This article argued that despite the serious resentment and conflict this has produced, social evolutionary pressures will force all societies to modernize, so that the major technological and cultural gaps between various parts of the world will greatly diminish in the future.
Abstract: What is perceived by Huntington and many who think like him as an inevitable clash of civilizations is actually produced by the uneven modernization that has caused some parts of the world to lag behind others. Despite the serious resentment and conflict this has produced, social evolutionary pressures will force all societies to modernize, so that the major technological and cultural gaps between various parts of the world will greatly diminish in the future. Anti-modernizing policies that are rooted in poor social theory, and that feed on the resentment of people in societies whose modernization has lagged can, however, greatly retard modernization and increase human suffering and conflict. It is therefore a useful task for social scientists to consider what theories best explain social change in order to guide policies in the most beneficial direction. Classical functionalist-evolutionary theories do this far better than more recent theories such as those proposed by Huntington, by world system theoris...

50 citations

Book ChapterDOI
15 May 2017
TL;DR: The history of relations between China and Siam provides an interesting example of how Asian countries viewed Western countries and utilized them for Asian purposes as mentioned in this paper. But it is difficult to define modern Asia clearly according to the change from the tribute system to the treaty system.
Abstract: In examining post-19th-century Asian economic history, the capitalism-industrialization framework has generally been used, with the degree of "modernization" being determined according to the degree of industrialization. The chapter provides that official letters should be exchanged between the Russian Senate and the Ch'ing Colonial Office. The central ideal of Sinocentrism was that of the unitary benevolence and dignity of the imperial institution and its ultimate extension to "all under Heaven". China and the Asian tribute trade system responded to Western countries and the imposed treaties from within the system. Hence it is difficult to define modern Asia clearly according to the change from the tribute system to the treaty system. It has long been the practice to analyze modern Asia from the viewpoint of nations and international relationships. The history of relations between China and Siam provides an interesting example of how Asian countries viewed Western countries and utilized them for Asian purposes.

50 citations

Book
15 Oct 2010
TL;DR: For instance, Greenhalgh et al. as discussed by the authors argued that the vital politics of population has been central to the globalizing agenda of the reform state, and that the governance of population is critically important to the rise of global China.
Abstract: Current accounts of China's global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China's people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China's one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China's ascent. Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004 - 09, she argues that the vital politics of population has been central to the globalizing agenda of the reform state. By helping transform China's rural masses into modern workers and citizens, by working to strengthen, techno-scientize, and legitimize the PRC regime, and by boosting China's economic development and comprehensive national power, the governance of the population has been critically important to the rise of global China. After decades of viewing population as a hindrance to modernization, China's leaders are now equating it with human capital and redefining it as a positive factor in the nation's transition to a knowledge-based economy. In encouraging 'human development,' the regime is trying to induce people to become self-governing, self-enterprising persons who will advance their own health, education, and welfare for the benefit of the nation. From an object of coercive restriction by the state, population is being refigured as a field of self-cultivation by China's people themselves.

50 citations

Book
28 Dec 2005
TL;DR: Fragments of Development as mentioned in this paper explores the intersection between the imagined space of the national economy and the gendered construction of "expert" knowledge in development thought and highlights how intersections of nation and economy are based on gendered and colonial scripts.
Abstract: "A bold and challenging consideration of questions of development, economic globalization, communities and subjectivity from a unique feminist perspective. A must-read book for those who wish to understand restructuring and resistance in this era of intensified globalization."---Isabella C. Bakker, York University "Bergeron's pathbreaking analysis challenges orthodox development theories, questions current feminist economic thinking and highlights crucial new gendered challenges to globalization."---Jane Parpart, Dalhousie University "Cutting-edge scholarship. Bergeron deftly engages the complexity of current debates while retaining clarity, improving analyses, and illuminating alternatives."---V. S. Peterson, University of Arizona By tracing out the intersection between the imagined space of the national economy and the gendered construction of "expert" knowledge in development thought, Suzanne Bergeron provides a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice. By elaborating a framework of including/excluding economic subjects and activities in development economics, she provides a rich account of the role that economists have played in framing the contested political and cultural space of development. Bergeron's account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy follows its shifting meanings through modernization and growth models, dependency theory, structural adjustment, and contemporary debates about globalization and highlights how intersections of nation and economy are based on gendered and colonial scripts. The author's analysis of development debates effectively demonstrates that critics of development who ignore economists' nation stories may actually bolster the formation they are attempting to subvert. "Fragments of Development" is essential reading for those interested in development studies, feminist economics, international political economy, and globalization studies.

50 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20231,630
20223,824
2021370
2020573
2019604