Phenomenon of Late Modernization in Türkiye and Mexico: A Comparative Analysis in the Context of Non-Westernism

Abstract

All societies that have entered the modernization process experience the pain of a movement from tradition to modernity. In this transitional period, each (traditional) society has its own course. It is normal for this process to shift in different directions from time to time or to have backward deviations in the short term especially in late modernizing societies. On the other hand, the fact that non-Western societies experience the modernization process unique to their own dynamics in their own path has revealed different modernization models such as Turkish modernization, Japanese modernization and Iranian modernization. The efforts of Turkey and Mexico, which are among the most prominent examples of the modernization efforts of non-Western societies, to get rid of the tradition that started in the 19th century and their experience of the national revolutions in the 20th century as the most radical stage, encouraged this study to be carried out on these two countries with a comparative method.

Keywords: Modernization, Tradition, Revolution, Turkey, Mexico, Non-Western.