Dean C. Tipps of the University of California, Berkeley describes the theory thusly: Modernization, then, becomes a transition, or rather a series of transitions from primitive, subsistence economies to technology-intensive, industrialized economies; from subject to participant political cultures; from closed, ascriptive status systems to open, achievement-oriented systems; from extended to nuclear kinship units; from religious to secular ideologies; and so on […] Thus conceived,modernization is not simply a process of change, but one which is defined in terms of the goals toward which it is moving.1

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