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Modernization Approach

The document discusses the modernization approach which views societies as evolving through increasing levels of development and civilization. It introduces resources lacking in communities and assumes development requires abandoning tradition for industrial technology. However, it is criticized for requiring destruction of indigenous culture and viewing non-Western societies as inferior.

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Modernization Approach

The document discusses the modernization approach which views societies as evolving through increasing levels of development and civilization. It introduces resources lacking in communities and assumes development requires abandoning tradition for industrial technology. However, it is criticized for requiring destruction of indigenous culture and viewing non-Western societies as inferior.

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Modernization Approach

(Project Development
Approach)
 Comes from a view of societies as having
a standard evolutionary pattern.
 Each society would evolve from barbarism
to greater levels of development and
civilization.
 Talcott Parsons is its foremost advocate.
 Introduces whatever resources are lacking
in a given community.
 Also
considered a national strategy which
adopts the western mode of technological
development.
 Assumes that development consist of
abandoning the traditional methods of
doing this and must adopt the technology
of industrial country.
 Believes that poverty is due to lack of
education, lack of resources such as
capital / technology.
Disadvantages
 Required the destruction of indigenous
culture, and its replacement by more
westernized one.
 It only views western society as being truly
modern arguing that others are primitive or
unevolved by comparison.
 Sees unmodernized societies as inferior.

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