Modernization

shaped China’s society through manners and respect among its people and through acceptance of your place in society. Mao Zedong tried to create a higher functioning society and economy during the Great Leap Forward and Deng Xiaoping used his Four Modernizations to shape China’s economy to run smoother and more effective. Without these people, China would not be where it is today. As China started to shape itself, major belief systems started to be formed by different people. Confucianism was on…

political institutions, institutional arrangements, political parties, and uneven economic development. As Huntington has argued, Brazil’s transition in reference to the Modernization theory does not fit the society because getting rid of the traditions in the region has led to a non-legitimate bureaucracy. And in other words, the modernization theory sequence is incorrect for the development of a state because institutions need to be created first in a society. In this paper Brazil’s Fragile…

different ways. It helped to drastically develop and change our world with many positive results like the Industrial Revolution and the Scientific Revolution. These revolutions did have some negative results, but society was able to learn from it. Modernization has already deeply impacted economics, science, art, and culture, and will continue to improve each with every passing…

For example technology, we have created phones, tablets that can be taken with you everywhere instead of a laptop, when we transitioned from a huge computer to a portable laptop. Modernization creates jobs, opportunities and more goods. Modernization is developing. Dependency theory is where the poor countries (peripheral nations) sends its goods to rich countries (core countries), yet they continue to be poor. We get most of our technology, cars, coffee, and clothes…

Since its society was created in 10,000 BC, Japan has been an unrelenting force of modernization. The country formed around 400 AD by building a centralized state under one imperial dynasty and borrowing law codes and other institutions from China. After setbacks due to the rise of the samurai class, which broke the country into competing factions, the arrival of Europeans prompted Xenophobia across the nation. In the early 17th century, the Japanese actively protested and discriminated against…

The roaring twenties were the decade of modernization. Women had been fighting for years to gain respect and equality. World War I had ended two years prior, this was the time for a change. Women in the roaring twenties rejected all aspects of the Victorian age and were the driving force for the gain of women’s rights and modernization. The 1920’s were an indication the Victorian age was over. “Unemployment was down, from 4,270,000 in 1921 to a little over two million in 1927. The general level…

This essay will explain both modernization and dependency theories by highlighting some significant forces and values and evaluate both strengths and weaknesses of the two theories. Modernization theory can be defined as a system of ideas intended to explain the process of development within the context of societies. The theory refers to a model of transition from poor countries countries to rich countries. The theory’s center of interest is on the conversion of institutional structure in terms…

Abstract The modernization theory has been acknowledged and disparaged for being Eurocentric. However, there are a variety of other theories similar to the modernization theory around, including the dependency theory and the globalization theory. They all house many similarities and many differences. In this paper, I will investigate the multiple theories, further looking into whether or not the dependency theory and globalization theory are bias, I will compare and contrast the three theories,…

attained independence and opening of parliament in Africa in 1960. This marked the end to the “100 year colonial Rule” of Africa. “Within the first year Africa began taking its place amongst the other countries of the world” (Africa, 3:30). The modernization of Africa over the last 20 years has lead to a number of issues from, increases in population, lack of electrical power to go around, and escape from famine, forced labor and unhealthy living conditions. As time went on many people took…

humanity has evolved from being hunter-gatherers to the agricultural farmers they are today as modernization improves greatly year-by-year. After reading Diamond’s piece, “The Worst Mistake in the Human History of the Human Race”, and Horowitz’s article, “Convenient Meat”, one can see the benefits and disadvantages that have been brought upon from modernization in our food flows and commodity chains. Modernization is created through the motivation and drive to make complicated tasks easier…