Week 5: Major theories and Implications continues..
Modernization is an objective phenomenon since about eighteenth century in the world, and the modernization science is a newly emerging interdisciplinary science which deals with the modernization phenomenon. Modernization is not only a sort of change of civilization but also the competition among different civilizations. Human civilization is not only an organic whole but also an aggregation of civilizations of different countries and nations. Both modernization and civilization development are asynchronous.