Talk:Modernization

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[edit] Partial account

The article in present form seems quite partial and incomplete. It implies from its description of origin that the only way to use the term is in an evolutionary scheme, whereas it is a vital term in other kinds of descriptions of modernity and modernism. The text as it stands seems to imply that to use the term is to approve of the processes it describes. Dialectical (for example) accounts of modernity describe modernization as contradictory processes, describing its beneficial and destructive aspects. The article seems to imply that to use the term is to only see the benefits, while to oppose its use is to only see its destructions. There are other POV issues here too, such as "technically modernity refers to the present"; while I agree we are still 'in' modernity, many others think we are not. DionysosProteus 12:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC)