ABSTRACT
The modernization of a society can be a broadly defined process that includes political, economic, social and cultural dimensions. The narrow sense of the concept, however, is usually equated with the process of industrialization, with the assumption that industrialization - the advancement ofthe economy in an industrialized mode - would eventually 'modernize' other dimensions of society. An industrialized economy, therefore, somehow becomes a benchmark of how a successful society is 'modernized' (Smelser 1959).
