Learning activity 6

Modernization the process of improvement where buy a nation transformed itself from and underdeveloped state to more modernized Society letting go of old norms and old cultures. It is argued that third world countries come short of becoming modernized because they do not possess attributes that first world countries have.

The five stages of growth that nations need to follow in procedure modernization are the traditional society, preconditions for takeoff, take off, the drive to maturity Iastly high mass consumption. Characteristics of modernization include literacy skills, urban migration, an increase in a high standard of living food security and political and economical freedom.

The dependency Theory is a theory is that proclaims that previously colonialised are poor due to the fact that first world nations exploit the resource of the nations they colonised.