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With industrialization comes with rising educational and income levels, decline of easily led publics and fertility rates, occupational specialization, attitudes towards sexual norm and authority, wider span of political participation and unexpected changes in gender roles
Modernization theorists from Karl Marx to Daniel Bell have argued that economic development brings constant culture changes. Their thesis is tested that economic development is linked with systematic changes in basic values, using the world values survey
Telephones, TV, airplanes, bureaucratic institution, computer control systems all are outcomes of industrialization.
- Contain the potential for enlarging the ranges of life, as well as broadening outlook.
- Transform ways of thinking, patterns of behavior and world views.
http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/12/chinese-town-threatened-by-modernization/
American Sociological review; Feb 2000; 65,1; ABI/INFORM Gobal
Non-Westeen societies surpassed the Western society in aspects of modernization.
Ex. Japan had the highest per capita income of any major nation in the world
-East Asia had the worlds highest rate of economic growth
China is investing hundreds of billions of dollars to modernize some of the historic trading towns on its western frontier. But critics say modernization is happening at a cost to the region’s cultural heritage.
From CNN.com
Finally, Japan is pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to Survival vs. Self-Expression values, meaning that Japan is not too worried about the basics, but it is not really a society that focuses a lot on individualism. On the other hand, Japan is on top when it comes to Secular-Rational Values. This might not be too surprising given that Japan is pretty hands-off when it comes to issues like abortion and how Japan tends to try and rationalize its problems instead of turning to a higher power to deal with them.
Another example of modernization subscribing itself to a society and changing that society’s traditional values and belief system would be Japan. People believe that Japan has a very spiritual and traditional culture but it is actually viewed as one of the most “rational” and least traditional countries in the world.
In the 1920s, Turkey made education one of its primary goals in order to modernize the country and began implementing a series of reforms to modernize the country
using the model of western societies. Although as educational reform was a critical element for transforming Turkey and improving the country, the original traditional values and beliefs were significantly altered, such as the women wearing headscarves. In 1980, a “Dress and Appearance” law was passed in order to keep the interest of “protecting secularism”, the law banned the wearing of headscarves in public offices, including schools, universities, hospitals, and government offices.
-Occurs when industry is introduced on a large scale to a region or a country.
-When an economy goes from being based on agriculture to being based on manufacturing.
The central claim is the economic development is linked to predictable changes in cultural, social and political life. It has been said that economic development tends to propel societies in a anticipated direction.
During the 20th century, modernization was widely viewed as a Western process that non-Western socities could take on and follow only if they abandon their own traditional cultures
Overall the World Values Survey is a good example on showing how some countries have become extremely modernized and have lost many aspects of their traditional values and belief systems, such as Japan. Although countries, such as Turkey, have had their traditional values and beliefs altered by modernization. Ultimately, as modernization subscribes itself into a society it will change, alter or abandon a society’s traditional value and belief system over time.
Industrialization produces general social and culture consequences; from the rise of educational levels as well as gender roles
Although the women in Turkey did not personally rid themselves of headscarves, procedures for secularism and modernization caused the ban of headscarves in public therefore causing changes in their original traditional values and beliefs. This is one example of how as society subscribes to modernization it abandons its traditional values and belief systems.
the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
This is according to the World Values Survey (WVS) which is the largest investigation ever conducted of attitudes, values, and beliefs around the world. The WVS states that countries are different in two main ways: Survival vs. Self-Expression Values and Traditional vs. Secular-Rational Values. Each society can be located on a global map of cross-cultural variation based on these two dimensions. The Survival values are how people are worried about basic human needs like having enough food and being safe versus the Self-Expression values which are how important individualism and self-expression are to people. As for the Traditional values it is more about valuing religion, traditional family structures, and rejecting modern practices. As for the Secular-Rational values, it is the exact opposite, such as countries that are accepting of things like gay rights, divorce, and abortion and do not rely so heavily on traditional social structures.
Education has indirect effects on economic development. The first indirect effect from education to economic development is through its effect on industrialization (the path coefficient is .45). High enrollment rate in secondary school is found to have a moderate and positive effect on level of industrialization. Industrialization is found to have a positive direct effect on economic development (the path coefficient is .20). The second indirect path from education to economic development is through population growth rate. High secondary school enrollment rate lowers a country’s population growth rate (path coefficient is −.90). A country’s population growth rate is found to have a weak and negative effect on its economic development (the path coefficient is −.11). The second indirect effect of education on economic development is .10 (−.99×−.11=.10). The total indirect effect of education on economic development is .19 (.09+.10=.19).
http://edu.learnsoc.org/Chapters/20%20education/3%20education%20and%20development.htm