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... social , political , and cultural changes . It is by undergoing the comprehensive transformation of industri- alization that societies become modern . Modernization is a continuous and open - ended process . Historically , the span of ...
... social , political , and cultural changes . It is by undergoing the comprehensive transformation of industri- alization that societies become modern . Modernization is a continuous and open - ended process . Historically , the span of ...
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... social reasons as from belief in their religious significance . Secularization is but one manifestation of a larger cul- tural process that affects all modern societies : the process of rationalization . While this process is epitomized ...
... social reasons as from belief in their religious significance . Secularization is but one manifestation of a larger cul- tural process that affects all modern societies : the process of rationalization . While this process is epitomized ...
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... social tensions , pains , and conflicts that accompany modernization ; SZYMON CHODAK , Societal De- velopment ( 1973 ) , surveys in critical detail the theories of modernization and development ; PETER WORSLEY , The Three Worlds ...
... social tensions , pains , and conflicts that accompany modernization ; SZYMON CHODAK , Societal De- velopment ( 1973 ) , surveys in critical detail the theories of modernization and development ; PETER WORSLEY , The Three Worlds ...
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