“lasted” in that they can still inform contemporary theorists, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately many of the trenchant critiques of modernization theory have conveniently airbrushed out (or ignored) these writers in terms of the canon of modernization theory. While Rostow and Parsons are...
. This has also led to sustainability debates becoming a major intellectual magnet for those scholars practicing in the more established subdisciplines of economic, social, cultural, andpolitical geography. Indeed, an important intellectual trend has been to recognize that sustainability theory needs to...
For context, there are different options for an enterprise, in theory at least, to boost application functionality to deliver new customer-focused innovation. What are legacy applications? In tech, anything labeled as “legacy” has an image problem. But to Rocket Software, legacy applications, of...
These strategies, rooted in the principles of framing theory and narrative construction (Entman, 1993; Goffman, 1974), enable media outlets to highlight certain aspects of Chinese modernization while potentially sidelining others, thus steering the discourse towards particular interpretations or conclusions...
they are gateways to a deeper understanding, offering learners an opportunity to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. This not only boosts confidence but also reinforces the application of knowledge, ensuring that what is learned in theory seamlessly translates into practical, job-ready skil...
such as Germany between its unification in 1871 to the eve of World War I, Italy before World War II, and Japan after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, but none of them has engendered academic theory and school of thought similarly influential as their economic practices in the history of econo...
water resources.The variable fuzzy set model was applied in a comprehensive assessment of the rural water resources modernization level of Shandong Province.The results indicate that this model is reasonable,simple,more reliable and practicable.It can be applied in a similar assessment of other ...
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The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "on the basis of long-term exploration and practice since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, and through innovative breakthroughs in theory and practice since the 18th ...
Modernization theory, as I understand it, was ideologically ecumenical. Whether these transitions we driven from the top down as in Soviet communism or from the bottom up as in US style capitalism wasn’t as much a concern as the universal nature of these developments. We jettisoned modernizatio...