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.
经典现代化理论认为，现代化进程就是由农业社会向工业社会转变的过程，其大致始于资本主义在欧洲的兴起。
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.
作为世界历史叙事的一种范式，现代化理论不仅体现了一种历史观，也展示了其意识形态的特质。
This was the heyday of "modernization theory," probably the most ambitious American attempt to create an integrated, empirical theory of human social change.
当时，“现代化理论”如日中天，其试图创立一套完整的，人类社会变革的经验性理论，此或许为美国理论界最为野心勃勃的尝试。

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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