Modernization Theory

Japanese: 近代化理論 - きんだいかりろん
Modernization Theory

… However, at the same time, American social scientists were preparing a completely different framework for modernization and were about to embark on comparative research of developing countries after World War II. This theory, which would later be collectively called modernization theory, assumed that Western countries, which had undergone a long process of modernization from below, and less developed countries and former colonies, which had been forced to modernize from above, would ultimately reach the same goal while following completely different historical development courses. Furthermore, the basic element in this historical development was to "take off" from pre-modern society by going through a modernization revolution, regardless of the political system, and that once this was successful, there would be no further revolutionary changes. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "modernization theory" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… しかし,その同じ時期に,アメリカの社会科学者たちは,近代化についてのまったく別な枠組みを用意して,第2次大戦後の発展途上国の比較研究にのりだそうとしていた。のちに近代化理論と総称されるこの理論において,長期間の下からの近代化過程をもった西欧諸国と上からの近代化を余儀なくされた後発諸国や旧植民地諸国は,まったく別な歴史発展のコースをたどりつつ最終的に同じゴールに到達するものと仮定されていた。また,この歴史発展において基本的なことは,政治体制のいかんにかかわらず近代化革命を経由することによって前近代社会から〈離陸〉することであり,それに成功した後はふたたび革命的変動は起こらないことが展望されていた。…

※「近代化理論」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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