What does modernization mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. modernization, modernisationnoun

    making modern in appearance or behavior

    "the modernization of Nigeria will be a long process"

  2. modernizationnoun

    a modernized version (as of a play)

Wiktionary

  1. modernizationnoun

    the process of modernizing

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  1. modernization

    Modernization refers to a process of societal transformation from traditional, rural, agrarian societies to industrialized, urban societies characterized by advanced technology, infrastructure, and social institutions. This process involves significant changes in culture, economy, politics, and social structures, and often associated with progress, development, and improvement in living standards. It involves aspects like industrialization, urbanization, rationalization, bureaucratization, and changes in social, political, and economic systems.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Modernizationnoun

    the act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting

Wikidata

  1. Modernization

    Modernization or modernisation refers to a model of an evolutionary transition from a 'pre-modern' or 'traditional' to a 'modern' society. The teleology of modernization is described in social evolutionism theories, existing as a template that has been generally followed by societies that have achieved modernity. While it may theoretically be possible for some societies to make the transition in entirely different ways, there have been no counterexamples provided by reliable sources. Historians link modernization to the processes of urbanization and industrialisation, as well as to the spread of education. As Kendall notes, "Urbanization accompanied modernization and the rapid process of industrialization." In sociological critical theory, modernization is linked to an overarching process of rationalisation. When modernization increases within a society, the individual becomes that much more important, eventually replacing the family or community as the fundamental unit of society. Modernization theory and history have been explicitly used as guides for countries eager to develop rapidly, such as China. Indeed, modernization has been proposed as the most useful framework for World history in China, because as one of the developing countries that started late, "China's modernization has to be based on the experiences and lessons of other countries.".

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. modernization

    See military capability.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of modernization in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of modernization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of modernization in a Sentence

  1. Premier Li Keqiang:

    In order to defuse problems and risks, avoid falling into the 'middle income trap', and achieve modernization, China must rely on development, and development requires an appropriate growth rate, at the same time, China's economic development has entered a 'new normal'.

  2. Premier Li Keqiang:

    In order to defuse problems and risks, avoid falling into the 'middle income trap', and achieve modernization, China must rely on development and development requires an appropriate growth rate, at the same time, China's economic development has entered a 'new normal'.

  3. Frank Kendall:

    I became alarmed as soon as I started seeing technical intelligence reports on China’s modernization programs. I could say the same of Russia’s modernization programs as well. We came out of the Cold War with a very dominant military. We demonstrated that military conclusively in the first Gulf War and we used it effectively against any conventional force since. Since 2001 we’ve been involved in counter insurgency, the precision-munitions revolution that we demonstrated has been emulated by others.

  4. Michael Madden:

    The KPA (Korean People's Army) is undergoing actual modernization. Kim Jong Un is cutting through some of the fiefdoms and patronage networks that had grown too powerful.

  5. President Barack Obama:

    It is not an economy that's built for the 21st century. Unfortunately, those forces for modernization inside of Russia, I think, have been sidelined. That's bad for Russia and, over time, it's bad for the United States, because if Russia is doing badly, the concern is that they revert to old expansionist ideas that really shouldn't have any application in the 21st century.

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