The Term "Modernization

question 80

Multiple Choice

The term "modernization":

• A)is a relativistic rather than ethnocentric concept.
• B)refers to the process of cultural and socioeconomic change whereby societies acquire the characteristics of industrialized societies.
• C)refers to a global and all-encompassing process whereby modern cities development new types of subsistence.
• D)can be used to show that all societies go through the same stages of evolutionary development,culminating in the urban-industrial state.
• E)is not used by anthropologists.

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Definitions:

Supply Chain

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Responsiveness

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Metric

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