Modernization theory on the routes of social economic development
Efremenko D.V.
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia efdv@mail.ru
Meleshkina E.Yu.
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia elenameleshkina@yandex.ru
Efremenko D.V., Meleshkina E.Yu. Modernization theory on the routes of social economic development. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2014. No 6. P. 3-12
Examines the development of Western thinkers to the theory of modernization in 1950-1960-ies. follow-up Analyses the evolution of ideas about modernization, the increasing interest in the diversity of socio-economic development. The main problem of contemporary debates about modernization is seen in the recognition/non-recognition of the normative model of modernity.