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Course Content
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This course aims to explain the phenomenon of modernization which is known
as the process of transition from traditional to modern society by using
quantitative methods. The “grand dichotomy”, which embodies the traditional
on the one hand and the modern on the other, is at the heart of the
modernization theorist s understanding of social change. These two concepts,
similar to the two poles of an axis, correspond to the two extreme states of the
modernization process. With reference to the great duality, the theory of
modernization uses numerous explanatory dichotomies, economic, political,
and cultural. Rural settlements versus urban settlements, illiteracy versus
literacy, piety versus secular lifestyle. examples of these dualities. This course
will quantitatively investigate the processes of modernization at both the
individual and social levels, looking at the practical elements of
modernization, including socio-economic development, industrialization,
urbanization and secularization. Within the scope of the course, students will
compare the traditional and modern elements in order to understand the basic
dynamics and elements of the modernization process by using the appropriate
statistical methods to obtain data from databases such as World Value Survey,
European Barometer, Asian Barometer, African Barometer, Latin Barometer.
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