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Learning Activity 6

2 May 2021, 13:22 Publicly Viewable

modernisation

modernisation can be defined as the process of social, economical and cultural transformation were country evolves from the underdeveloped status to a modern society.  Modernization wants the societies to evolve from the traditional culture to modern due to the process of the modernization. while in the dependency theory they talk about the satellites and the metropole and in the satellites they produce raw materials and in the metropole they buy the raw materials in a lower price and they make a huge income from the raw material, it is exploitation as they capitalist their main goal at the end of the day is the profit.

Modernization theory is a description and explanation of the processes of transformation from traditional or underdeveloped societies to modern societies. In the words of one of the major proponents, "Historically, modernization is the process of change towards those types of social, economic, and political systems that have developed in Western Europe and North America from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and have then spread to other European countries and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the South American, Asian, and African continents