Modernization theory
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Modernization theory, or modernisation theory, is a sociological and comparative political science theory positing that processes of structural socioeconomic development, including industrialization,
Anarchist protest against Trump and democratic backsliding in the United States
Seymour Martin Lipset
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Seymour Martin Lipset was an American sociologist and political scientist. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and
Modernization theory
…and rationalist-bureaucratic forms of authority. The "classical" theories of modernization of the 1950s and 1960s, most influentially articulated by Seymour Lipset, drew on sociological analyses of Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons. Modernization theory was a dominant paradigm in the social…
Lipset in 1964
Lipset (far left) in a group discussion with August Heckscher II (second from left), Kenneth Haagensen (second from right), and Kenneth Youel (far right) c. 1960