Modernization is a slippery term with manifold relations to science and technology. In a narrow sense, it is often synonymous with bringing more advanced science or technology to bear, as in modernizing a construction process or production plant. In a...

In academic development economics and related disciplines, and also in actual public policy on development, the word modernization slips and slides, alludes and obtrudes, both as a key or code term as well as a perfectly ordinary word meaning updating,...

Modernization entered political science and political discourse from sociology, and refers generally to the capacity of countries from outside the European/ North American/Old Commonwealth countries, (the First World, in other words), to develop the...

An economic and technological process that emerges with capitalism; this also has cultural and social implications. Sometimes called a theory of...

Modernization (also Modernisation) is a concept in the sphere of social sciences that refers to process in which society goes through industrialization, urbanization and other social changes that completely transforms the lives of individuals. The...

President Bush on Tuesday approved changes aimed at modernizing the country's controls on the export of sensitive products to foreign nations. U.S. manufacturers said the changes should boost the ability of American companies to make overseas sales.In a brief statement, the White House said the...

Location: The downside of a strong real-estate market is that people have been priced out of neighborhoods, old mom-and-pop shops closed. There was even a “Talk of the Town” piece in The New Yorker recently about how New Yorkers believe their city is changing too...

Sonia Gandhi, the head of India's ruling coalition, laid the foundation stone Saturday for an ambitious $1.5 billion plan to modernize New Delhi's dilapidated, overcrowded airport.Authorities are planning a new, modern terminal to handle both international and domestic traffic, and a third runway to ensure...

China's sprawling military will speed up its modernization during the next five years, increasingly adopting high-tech battle systems and upgrading training, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday.In his keynote speech at the opening of the Communist Party Congress, held every five years, Hu said he...