2021; WISDOM 3(19), 2021: 182–193
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Updating Social Theory: Redefinition of Modernization

Received: 2024-11-20 · Published: 2021-09-25

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Original title
Updating Social Theory: Redefinition of Modernization
Author
Vardgues POGOSYAN
Published
2021-09-25
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v19i3.486

Abstract

The article considered a critical appraisal of the modernization theory in its mono-paradigm frames and offers a heterodox conceptual meaning of modernization. Obviously, the varieties of methodological ap- proaches to that important theoretical topic would have to be much more comprehensive than con- temporary interpretations of linear pattern mainstream theories propose. Rethinking the conceptual foun- dations of the existing interpretation of the very concept is the model of adaptive modernization. Protect- ing its own matrix core, the system carries out partial correction of specific parameters, in which there is a lag, to increase their own vitality. Constructive changes are intra-systemic and occur within the existing order, without destroying its foundations, main institutional structures, and preserve the generic socio- cultural genotype Modernization, as reception of foreign cultural innovations (technical and technological) with their appropriate adaptation to the endogenous conditions, is an adequate adaptive response of a so- cial system to external risks or exogenous origin impact.
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