modernizationn.
/ˌmɒdənʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmɒdn̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmɑdərnəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmɑdərˌnaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or an act of modernizing something; the state of being modernized. Also: a modernized version.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > modernizing
modernization1770
modernizing1829
updating1959
aggiornamento1962
update1968
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > modernizing > updated version
modernization1830
update1967
1770 R. Gough Let. 21 Mar. in Lett. between Granger & Lit. Men (1805) 263 The Marquis of Winchester's noble house at Englefield has suffered by some late modernizations.
1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry III. 317 The Birds is an abridgement, or modernization, of the comedy of Aristophanes so entitled.
1895 C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iv. 101 The town of Bletchingley..is, despite some modernization, an old-world spot.
1927 Amer. Mercury Jan. 125/2 ‘The Pearl of Great Price’ is, like ‘Everywoman’ and ‘Experience’, a modernization of the ancient morality play.
1969 J. Ashbery & J. Schuyler Nest of Ninnies v. 62 Any—er—modernization would have to be at your own expense.
1988 Which? June 266/2 Many of the telephone exchanges..are awaiting modernisation.
Compounds
modernization theory n. Sociology a theory of social development originating in the United States in the 1960s as an alternative to Marxism, which proposes that all societies necessarily evolve from a simple to a complex structure and towards a goal of industrialization.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1972 G. Omveldt in A. R. Desai Ess. Modernization of Underdeveloped Societies I. vii. 127 The optimistic version of modernization theory is exemplified in the recent trend in analyzing the caste system in India.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 7/2 ‘Modernization theory’ is another disappointment. According to it..communism was..‘nothing but a comprehensive design and an ideological mask for policies of development’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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