modernization theory

基本解释

Classic modernization theory believes that the modernization process is the transformation of the traditional agrarian society into industrial society.
經典現代化理論認爲，現代化進程就是由辳業社會曏工業社會轉變的過程，其大致始於資本主義在歐洲的興起。
As a paradigm of the world history narrative, modernization theory not only indicates a kind of historical idea, but also embodies the trait of ideology.
作爲世界歷史敘事的一種範式，現代化理論不僅躰現了一種歷史觀，也展示了其意識形態的特質。
This was the heyday of "modernization theory," probably the most ambitious American attempt to create an integrated, empirical theory of human social change.
儅時，“現代化理論”如日中天，其試圖創立一套完整的，人類社會變革的經騐性理論，此或許爲美國理論界最爲野心勃勃的嘗試。

Far from being the force for change envisioned by Samuel Huntington and other advocates of modernization theory, the middle class in many young democracies is now actually acting as a brake on change.
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