modernization
IPA: mɑdɝnʌzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The process of modernizing.
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Examples of "modernization" in Sentences
- Moreover, Medvedev's project of modernization is not at all limited to national issues.
- Still, it's a fine way to introduce kids to some great music, though perhaps not your youngest, as the modernization is a bit dark.
- Just as economic modernization requires and fosters democratic institutions, so political modernization is unsustainable without lasting economic growth.
- Here modernization is complete; people enjoy a high standard of living and extensive freedom; the nation is the most powerful and successful in the world.
- I agree with Ernest Gellner and Niklas Luhmann that a hallmark of modernization is that the economy is less and less controlled by politics (and religion).
- But perhaps immigration's role in retarding economic modernization is confined to agriculture, which, after all, is very different from the rest of the economy.
- To understand just how far astray an institution can go in the name of modernization and expansion, one need only consider the recent botched redesigns of New York's Morgan Library & Museum and Brooklyn Museum.
- Ai told him he was fascinated by objects China seemed eager to shunt aside in the name of modernization, including the Ming-era chairs, tables and latticed shutters that went into the trash heap whenever a new luxury high-rise went up.
- He does not argue the case for liberal democracy as progressives and liberals would argue, but what he calls modernization, "technologically advanced and prosperous — society, which, if satisfied, tends to drive demands for political participation."
- Luckily, modernizing society does not depend on such technical understanding, indeed the essence of modernization is the separation and autonomy of social systems - so that economic policy (for example) is over the long term becoming progressively separated from politics.
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