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Industrialization vs Modernization - What's the difference?

industrialization | modernization |

As nouns the difference between industrialization and modernization

is that industrialization is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state while modernization is the process of modernizing.

industrialization

English

(wikipedia industrialization)

Alternative forms

* industrialisation

Noun

(en noun)
  • a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state

    • modernization

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia modernization)
  • the process of modernizing

    • Alternative forms

    * modernisation

    Related terms

    * modernize * modernizer