In his seminal book Political Order in Changing Societies, Huntington took issue with the theory's relatively unproblematic picture of social change. He argued that modernization theorists were right ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The concept of "modernization" or "development theory" originally stemmed ... Modernizing the Middle East (1958), argued that the West, through the ...

Western social theory once insisted that modernization meant secularization and secularization meant the withering away of religion. But religion hasn't withered away, and this has forced a ...