Modernization plan
Introduction
Modernization is a socioeconomic process of industrialization and modernization. Unlike modernity or modernism, it is, using Jacques Derrida's concept, always in a future or to come state, whose goal is to reach modernity.
The modernization theory is a theory used to explain the modernization process in societies. Modernization refers to a model of a progressive transition from a "pre-modern" or "traditional" society to a "modern" one. The theory analyzes the internal factors of a country, with the assumption that, with help, "traditional" countries can achieve "development" in the same way that more developed countries currently have. The theory of modernization tries to identify the social variables that contribute to social progress and the development of societies, and tries to explain the process of social evolution. The theory of modernization is subject to criticism that originates between free market and socialist ideologies and from world-system, globalization and dependency theorists, among others. Modernization theory not only emphasizes the process of change, but also the responses to this change. It also analyzes the internal dynamics, referring to social and cultural structures and the adoption of new technologies.
The theory of modernization attempts to identify the social variables that contribute to social progress and the development of societies and tries to explain the process of social evolution. Modernization theory is subject to criticism originating from socialist and free market ideologies, world systems theorists, globalization theorists, and dependency theorists, among others. Modernization theory emphasizes not only the process of change but also the responses to that change. It also analyzes internal dynamics when referring to social and cultural structures and the adaptation of new technologies.[1].
A theory of modernization finds as a reference point the assumption of the United States as a world power. Modernization, unlike European accumulation, is understood as a holistic category in which Fordism was a central element for its aesthetic and analytical construction. But modernization would transcend North American borders and provoke similar capitalist impulses in Europe, Russia and Japan and, on a smaller scale, some emerging countries. Four clear elements can be understood as basic structural changes in this phase of modernity:
According to Rostow's theory of economic development, for a particular society there are five stages. In summary, these five stages are:.