Modernization
Mergel, Thomas
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"Modernization" has been one of the most intensely negotiated concepts of the theoretical and historical social sciences over the last fifty years. Conceptions of the term have changed considerably during the course of this discussion. Starting as an optimistic and unmistakably system-dependent derivative of the Western, European and North-American notion of progress, the concept became aware of the ambivalences, power structures, and unintended consequences of modernity. Modernization increasingly developed from an easily workable and applicable – and often perfunctory – concept into a general heuristic idea, which raises the question as to the ties holding modern societies together and the mechanisms enabling change. A controversial theoretical yet application-oriented concept morphed into a guiding principle that is, strictly speaking, no longer falsifiable.
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