the rise of income for the average citizen, proliferation of literacy, urbanization and active mass media to make everything accessible to people. The ideas showed in this book point that modernization is the image of the Western model, in economic, social, cultural and political state of civilization. What does he mean when he states that "The past few hundred years have witnessed a portentous historical change"?1 What period exactly is he referring to? Since the discovery of America and the introduction of European systems to the indigenous cultures and the expansion of the developed countries into the new territory? One can wonder if that really an age of modernization considering that the first centuries of America saw it as a country of farmers, civil fights against the savages and probably more narrow concepts than those still current in the old continent today. The evolution and modernization went very fast in America, while it kept a rather symmetrical rhythm in Europe. On the other hand if we were to consider the revolutionary changes that had taken place all the way through history since the Neolithic and until the medieval age, the world has experienced stages of rapid development, intercalated with ages of stagnation.
             Modernization brings along direct contact between government and citizens. Makes the switch of economy from agricultural to industrial. Brings new state functions and new positions. It increases burochracy and diplomatic ways. The development of technology and science, helped speed work and production techniques to make labor lighter and easier. As the mass production grows new items are introduced to the market and into the daily life, making society more consumes. Urbanization and centralization of the cities becomes a main concern. The exploitation of the environment and increase of protectionist movements that concern for the resources. Protest movements to equal right intensify as the people ...