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- noun The act or process of
postmodernizing .
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Biographical notes on contributors speak of their concern with "forms of moral personhood in the US novels," "the poetics of foreign policy," and "ecocriticism and theories of modernization, postmodernization, and globalization."
What Killed American Lit. Joseph Epstein 2011
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Until now this has been considered a defect; but as we progress to a new stage of world history from modernity to postmodernity, it rather promises to become a benefit, because this nation, never fully modernized, is easily able to embrace the process of postmodernization.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Azuma Hiroki on Postmodernism 2009
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Here's a useful summary of Inglehart's postmodernization theory from Christian Welzel:
Forbes.com: News Will Wilkinson 2011
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In any case, the idea that the binding foundations are defensive and operate as sort of adaptation to a climate of uncertainty and threat is very illuminating and I think may help in my quest to join Haidt's five-foundations theory with Ronald Inglehart's postmodernization theory of value change.
Forbes.com: News Will Wilkinson 2011
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