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A Critical Perspective on Ageism and Modernization Theory

Social Inclusion, 2019
Modernization theory has often been used to explain country differences in levels of ageism. The commentary at hand questions its usefulness in the analysis of ageism today for two reasons.
Wouter De Tavernier, Laura Naegele, Moritz Hess   +2 more
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Reassessing China’s Regional Modernization Based on a Grey-Based Evaluation Framework and Spatial Disparity Analysis [PDF]

Entropy
Understanding regional disparities in Chinese modernization is essential for achieving coordinated and sustainable development. This study develops a multi-dimensional evaluation framework, integrating grey relational analysis, entropy weighting, and ...
Wenhao Zhou, Hongxi Lin, Zhiwei Zhang, Siyu Lin   +3 more
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Analysis of main indexes of agricultural modernization in Shanxi Province [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Under the guidance of modernization theory and sustainable development theory, this paper constructs the evaluation system of agricultural modernization development level in Shanxi Province, evaluates the development level of agricultural modernization ...
Li Shi chao, Luo Ya nan, Li Wei, Ding Sheng xi   +3 more
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Evolutionary Modernization Theory: Why People’s Motivations are Changing [PDF]

Changing Societies & Personalities, 2017
A society’s culture is shaped by the extent to which its people grow up feeling that survival is secure or insecure. This article presents a revised version of modernization theory – Evolutionary Modernization Theory – which argues that economic and ...
Ronald F. Inglehart
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The Link between ICT4D and Modernization Theory [PDF]

Global Media Journal: German Edition, 2015
For some decades western institutions have shared an enormous enthusiasm for Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Nevertheless, despite the field’s ever-increasing importance, research on it remains fragmented and lacks a
Marlene Kunst
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Hollow Ecology: Ecological Modernization Theory and the Death of Nature

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2017
The last few decades have seen the rise of ‘ecological modernization theory’ (EMT) as a “green capitalist” tradition extending modernization theory into environmental sociology.
Jeffrey A. Ewing
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Exploring Development Challenges in Uganda Using Modernization Theory

Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan
This paper explores challenges of modernization theory in Uganda by analyzing its conceptual distinctions and theoretical frameworks. Modernization theories are typically categorized into 'critical variable' and 'dichotomous' approaches, each defining ...
Gloria Nambassa, Eko Priyo Purnomo
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Evolution and modernization of enterprises’ theory

Вестник Воронежского государственного университета: Серия экономика и управление, 2004
Well-know variants of enterprises' theory are considered in the work, their new classification is offered; grouping and chronology, based on different recording in these theories, target-oriented, positioning, environmental and social aspects of ...
Georgiy Borisovich Kleyner
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Contemporary theories of modernity and modernization [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2008
The article discusses the evolution of modernization theories since the middle of the 20th century. Talcott Parsons’ contribution to elaboration of the theory of modernization and critique of the functionalist version of this theory are characterized ...
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WAYS OF P-Q THEORY MODERNIZATION FOR WORK IN NON-SINUSOIDAL UNBALANCED VOLTAGE CONDITIONS

Electrical engineering & Electromechanics, 2013
Two different techniques of P-Q instantaneous power theory mathematical apparatus modernization for shunt active filters are analyzed. Both techniques are equal in nature while different in implementation.
V.S. Kozlov, V.A. Kolsun, A.F. Sinolitsyy   +2 more
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