Modernization

“Explain and evaluate two of the main post-World War II development theories (Modernization and Dependency) and highlight some of the values and forces that shaped them”. World War II ended in 1945 after Japan and Germany surrendered to the Allies and U.S.S.R. The imperial countries offered available options for their colonies, whether those nations required to remain as colonies or exited from their regimes. Thus, dependence countries were becoming decolonized from the mother countries. These…

colonization effect on religion changed the Haitian mindset towards development. It will also highlight how the impact on resources due to colonization from a modernization and dependency theory perspective. Lastly, it describes how Haiti’s finances to develop its infrastructure and raise living standard are attributable to both the modernization and dependency schools of thought. Haiti was first colonized by the French and as a…

Arjun Patel Harry Truman’s Point Four Speech: An In-Depth Analysis of the Modernization Theory With the conclusion of World War II, the globe was left in a frazzled state of destruction from the aftermath of many vicious battles. Harry Truman was then elected President of the United States of America in 1948 and needed to address the issue of how to help the world rebuild after such a devastating war (Smith). Subsequent his election, his inaugural address proposed four points. Of the four, his…

Modernization theory focuses on political power through influence, as well as the alliances it makes to help fulfill the influence it gives. It also goes for a nonviolent stance, looking at change without the use of violence thus not physically forcing anything other than the police power and foreign policy that comes with it. The increase in technology and economy come with the idea of modernization theory as well. Similarly, the civilization mission…

Question # 2 The “Centrality of the State” is important in understanding Third World countries. This essay will look at the meaning and implication of the “centrality of the state”, what modernization is and its imperatives and the impact of the imperatives on the political development of Third World Countries. To begin, the “centrality of the state” is the idea of who holds the power in a country. The person that holds the power is trying to keep this power from the new elites in the country.…

ideology, is a possible explanation for the events in 1917, the historiographical position which best explains the inevitability of the Russian revolution is the modernization theory, popularized by George Kennan. This argues that instead of following a determined order of events leading towards revolution, it was in fact the modernization of Russia directly contradicting the tsarist ideology, which contributed to the inevitability of the revolution. Yet, while the tradition soviet view suggests…

that allow countries to be considered democracies (Dickovick and Eastwood, 2016, p. 91). On the other hand, Seymour Martin Lipset is a proponent of the theory of modernization and argues that democracy is the result of economic modernization and growth. Also, Lipset uses four factors to demonstrate the positive correlation between modernization and democracy which are: income, level of industrialization, education, and urbanization (Lipset, 1959). In the previous…

Modernization theorists are typically not focused on imperialism as an issue. These theorists believe that the third world societies are, “traditional,” and that imperialism did not have any lasting effects or dramatic changes to these third world countries or the poverty they experience. Modernization focuses on the idea that each country develops into modernity at the rate in which they want to, so the more developed countries “chose” to become more modern, while the third world countries…

According to the book Society: The Basics, social change can be defined as, “the transformation of culture and social institutions over time” (Macionis, 2006, p. 451). There are four main causes of social change: cultural change, conflicts, changes in ideas, and demographic changes (Macionis, 2006). Four primary stages of a social change are “emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline” (Macionis, 2006). Social movements have shaped the United States and social movements will continue…

Unit 5 Written Assignment 1. There is much criticism that modernization theory is Eurocentric. Introduction. “Modernization theory proposes that there are natural stages of economic development that all societies go through from undeveloped to advanced,” (Little & McGivern, 2013, p.560). One of the criticism of the modernization theory is that, “ widely varying degrees of development observed globally have less to do with natural stages of development and more to do with relations of economic…