Modernization theory in Europe

The theory of development I chose to explore for my blog is the modernization theory. The theory talks about the progression of a society into modernization, hence it being called the modernization theory. Once place this theory has been seen very prevently is in Europe. The modernization theory emerged in the 1950s, specifically talking about the development of industrial socieities of North america and Western Europe. The argument of this theory is how societies develop in predictable stages, and through this they develop more complexitively. Modernization relies on development, which depends on the importation of technology, as well as other political and social changes associated with it. Changes observed during modernization have been industrialization, urbanization, rationalization, bureaucracy, mass consumption, and the adoption of a democracy. The more contemporary, modern western societies we know today went through those changes, but began as very traditional. Through the modernization process, transportation and communication became much more accesible throughout europe. As well as that, their small buisnesses became much less successfull, and the best buisnesses were the larger ones. Cash driven markets were also seen to become the primary mechanism in which trading occured. More specifally the trading of goods and services. Western social scientists would argue they are doing so well since they have a capitalist economy at its center. A drawback of the modrnization theory is the fact that the modernization theory relies hevily on colonzation, slave labor, and stealing land.

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