MODERNIZATION

WHAT IS MODERNIZATION?
Technology enables a more inventive society and wide social transformation. The term modernization
refers to the enormous change that has occurred throughout the years in social, industrial, and
economic terms. It entails catching up to previous advances in areas such as efficiency, productivity,
quality of life, and risk reduction. In sociology, modernization refers to the transition from a traditional,
rural, agricultural society to a secular, urban, industrial society.
Cell phones, for example, have changed the lives of millions throughout the world.

Examples:
1. Technology – Infrastructure, platforms, systems, applications, robotics, machines and devices
that are more efficient, faster, lower risk and better at achieving your goals.
2. Energy – Energy sources that are cheaper and lower impact on the environment.
3. Transportation – Transportation methods that move people quicker, cheaper, faster and safer
with less impact on the environment.
4. Processes – Business processes and practices improve with time as innovative ideas are
disseminated, tested and adopted. It is common to regularly benchmark processes against the
competition to see if you're missing out on a better approach.
5. Products & Services – In some industries, products and services are rapidly improved such that
firms must modernize their products several times a year.
6. Organizational Culture – Transforming your norms, values and expectations as an organization
to match change in your society.
7. Quality of Life – Improvements in human well-being in areas such as health, education, safety,
cities, work and standard of living

Importance of Modernization
While some critics may be opposed to modernization and the development of infrastructure over time
in the aim of conserving history and culture, modernization is necessary for a city and its capacity to
advance at the pace of society and to meet the requirements of its people. As Karl Marx stated in the
prologue to Das Kapital over a century ago, "the country that is more developed industrially merely
reveals, to the less developed, the vision of its own future." Modernization is the process of enhancing
things to be closer to the current state of the art.

Modernization threatens traditional values and small domestic business practices. This strengthens the
fact that states with limited access to resources or modernized methods have low economic growth and
more competition. The negative effects of modernization also encompass social and even psychological
borders.

Is the Philippines a Modernized Country?

The Philippines is one of the emerging markets and is the sixth richest in Southeast Asia by GDP per
capita. The Philippines is primarily considered a newly industrialized country, which has an economy
transitioning from one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing.

Modernization and industrialization started in the philippines under a democratic form of government
hit full stride in the 1960s. The Philippines is a growing market with the sixth highest GDP per capita in
Southeast Asia. The Philippines is largely seen as a recently industrialized country, with an economy
transitioning away from agriculture and toward services and industry.
The Philippines' economy has grown fast during the 2000s, although the country remains a developing
economy with a per-capita GDP much below that of wealthy countries. The country's economy has
become more reliant on services, which currently account for more over 61% of GDP. Remittances from
Filipino employees working overseas currently contribute for around 10% of the country's total GDP.

What modernized Filipino traits?

Filipinos will always be known for warm hospitality, close family ties, love for freedom, bravery, humility
and hard-work. In these days wherein modernization claims superiority over traditionalism, one can
surely differentiate a Filipino from the past and a Filipino in the present times.