HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Modernization Theory, Heredity, Francophobia
6 Dec 2020
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Blanning, the french revolution and the modernization of germany : Compare this definition to the one you read in jack a. goldstone, Modernization, according to nipperdey, means a combination of developments: A demographic revolution: fall in mortality, decline in birthrate. Urbanization, retreat of the agrarian sector, increase in mobility. Increase in literacy; use of science, secularization. The state changes from being a personal organization of authority to being an institutional organization with a system of laws and bureaucracy, standing in direct relationship with its subjects. Power is assigned based on merit instead of heredity or privilege. Centralizing state, national state, imposes a greater degree of uniformity; transition from community to society (from particularist, personal to universal, impersonal) Dynamism and changes instead of statis and stability. Modernization, according to wehler: a process of rationalization which took place uniquely in the west (like weber) A rational way of organizing work is developed continuous capital accumulation, free- wage labour.
