Sentence examples similar to evolution toward modernization from inspiring English sources

Another criterion that could be used to define the School is an essentially ambivalent attitude toward Western modernity (or toward modernization as Westernization).

Consequently it obstructs the way toward modernization and socio-political development.

Defeat in Crimea made Russia's lack of modernization clear, and the first step toward modernization was the abolition of serfdom.

Efforts toward modernization came in the wake of the country's becoming a French protectorate in 1893 and finally after its inclusion in 1904 within the French Indochina Union.

Determined to continue the campaign against heresy, the popes of the Counter-Reformation did so inconsistently, displaying an ambiguous attitude toward modernization.

During Mr. Putin's next presidential term — his election is to be a foregone conclusion — Western politicians expect little will move toward modernization or democratization.

The justification of the decline of vernacular architectural and urban forms are in many ways attributed to an overwhelming attitude toward modernization and inadequately changing culture.

Latifa, Zoya and Ansary all come from the kind of families that supported the trend toward modernization of Afghan society that was interrupted in the late 1970's.

Although the basic trend is toward modernization, we can identify throwbacks (at the very beginning) and in specific dimension (eg. value of children) inertia.

These rustic libraries offering ink-on-paper books are an archaic turn for the literary scene, as major bookstores close and public libraries march toward modernization.

Modernization theory claimed that once developing societies came into contact with western European and North American societies, they would be impelled toward modernization and, eventually, would achieve the economic, political, and social features characteristic of the nations of western Europe and the United States.