Future Of Modernization
Submitted by miliguy2000 on September 5, 2010
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Future Of Modernization
Modernization in General
People, cultures, and societies constantly change or evolve to adapt, control, or survive the changing circumstances that surround them. Many things can affect a society, and cause a change that could possibly affect many future generations of members of those societies. One such change, the industrial revolution, caused a change called modernization which continues to affect societies around the world. Modernization is defined as the process of social change begun by industrialization. (Macionis, 2006)
Sociologist Peter L Berger identified four characteristics that define what we call modernization. The first characteristic is the decline of...
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