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Americanization of Social Science Paradigm: The Dissemination of Modernization Theory and Its reception in South Korea

  During the Cold War, American intellectuals shared a conviction that the 3rd world would be transformed and set on a new and better historical course by the dissemination of modernization theory. In the context of American concern about the appeal of communism in the decolonizing and developing world, modernization theorists in the U. S., sought to counter Marxist-Leninist argument with their own model of historical development. American policy makers and intellectuals perceived the introduction of modernization theory to South Korea as an ideal tool for bringing about the reorientation of intellectuals and university students in South Korea. U. S. governmental bodies (USIS) and private foundations(Asia foundation, Ford foundation) joined together and disseminated modernization theory to South Korea. As a regime of truth about social change and progress, modernization theory predates the Cold War, and seems to have survived it as well.