This article provides information about the decline of the paradigm in modernisation: The modernisation approach dominated the social science domain in the West and in several parts of the developing world for a decade and developed most between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s. Towards the end of the 1960s, however, it began to lose […]
Decline of the Paradigm in Modernisation | Social Development
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Concept of Modernisation | Modernisation Theory
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This article provides information about the concept of modernisation: Modernisation theory evolved from two ideas about social change: the conception of traditional vs. modern societies, and positivism that viewed development as societal evolution in progressive stages of growth. Concern with development emerged in the 1940s as a fallout of the process of decolonisation and reconstruction […]
Modernity : Understanding the Concept of Modernity | Sociology Development
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This article provides information about concept of modernity: Modernity may be understood as the common behavioural system that is historically associated with the urban, industrial, and literate and participant societies of Western Europe and North America. It is characterised by a rational and scientific world-view, growth and the ever increasing application of science and technology, […]