Module 9: Postmodernization and emancipation
  Lecture 25: Modernization and Post-modernization
 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISE

  • What do you understand by the term modernization?

  • What is the difference between modernization and individual modernity?

  • What were the major themes used by Smith and Inkeles in constructing a scale of modernity?

  • Do you think that there is any underlying connection between various themes used by Smith and Inkeles in constructing the scale of modernity? Can you divide the thirty five themes considered by them into five or six major themes?

  • How will you know whether a country is modernizing?

  • How will you know whether a person is modernizing?

  • What problems has modernization of society created for society?

  • What problems has modernization of individual created for individual?

  • Identify a few problems caused by modernization and industrialization of India?

  • If postmodernization is a critique of modernization and essentialism, can Gandhi be called a postmodern?