Select an appropriate definition for Modernization theory.

The theoretical stand suggests that industrialization is inevitable in all societies and every society is moving toward western industrial society as a model. Modernization theory suggests that society and state are in conflict about becoming an industrialized society. Modernization theory suggests the third world would remain underdeveloped due to exploitation of their resources by developed nations. Modernization is an antithetical position to westernization.

The theoretical stand suggests that industrialization is inevitable in all societies and every society is moving toward western industrial society as a model.

While the early sociologists saw industrialisation as both positive and negative, by the mid 20th century, under the influence of modernisation theory, industrialisation came to be seen as inevitable and positive. Modernisation theory argues that societies are at different stages on the road to modernisation, but they are all heading in the same direction. Modern society, for these theorists, is represented by the West.