`Modernization`

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MODERNIZATION

Introduction

According to Weiner , 1966 modernization is facilitated by dynamics of growth with protest and change . Modernization comes as a result of industrialization . Modernization is the view of societies having standard evolutionary structures known as social evolutionism theory Weiner 's modernization was all about Indian societies with Westernization that required destruction of their indigenous cultures and replaced them with westernization . Through modernization there was transformation of people 's life . Weiner , 1966 argued that , modernization involves integration of political , economic

and social cultures in association with spread of modernization . Modernization involves social change from agrarian societies to industrial . This can be a technological perspective but technological advancement doesn 't necessarily result in societal change but the response to technological advancement is what causes the change (Weiner , 1966 ,

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Weiner , 1966 argued that , the process of modernization is revolutionary , systematic , complex , long-term , global and progressive In the dynamics of growth there are threes schools including economy-decision , cooperative decision and culture-decision of the economy , and politics and culture . Modernization involves transformation of people 's affairs and process of rapid change since time of scientific revolution . This process of change in contemporary time is of the of magnitude from pre-human to human and primitive to civilized society This is the most dynamic of growth with great revolutionary transformations in human affairs . Modernization was common in countries which had classical modernization like India . Since 18th century during industrial revolution there was a great change which involved transformation...