modernization theory

基本解釋

Classic modernization theory believes that the modernization process is the transformation of the traditional agrarian society into industrial society.
經(jīng)典現(xiàn)代化理論認(rèn)為，現(xiàn)代化進(jìn)程就是由農(nóng)業(yè)社會向工業(yè)社會轉(zhuǎn)變的過程，其大致始于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.
作為世界歷史敘事的一種范式，現(xiàn)代化理論不僅體現(xiàn)了一種歷史觀，也展示了其意識形態(tài)的特質(zhì)。
This was the heyday of "modernization theory," probably the most ambitious American attempt to create an integrated, empirical theory of human social change.
當(dāng)時，“現(xiàn)代化理論”如日中天，其試圖創(chuàng)立一套完整的，人類社會變革的經(jīng)驗性理論，此或許為美國理論界最為野心勃勃的嘗試。

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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