On rethinking the modernization theory in modern reality

The relevance of the modernization theory nowadays can be questioned. This, of course, is not an attempt to doubt the correctness of the arguments and definitions that are present in the works of such famous scientists representing classical and non-classical philosophy as: R. Apter, H. Arendt, R. Aron, W. Brown, F. Braudel, T. Veblen, A. Wiener, R. Guardini, E. Giddens, who set the task to consider and analyze not only the advantages of Western civilization in comparison with others, but the cultural world of modernity itself and its evolution to the heights of the industrial and post-industrial stages of development. However, the rigid opposition of Western and other civilizations is fraught with serious misconceptions and problems. The countries of the world's periphery are choosing the path of preserving the cultural and historical heritage and building their own national economy, coming out from under the dictates of the West. Modernization by its nature is multivariate and involves moving towards a modern society, but preserving its civilizational specifics. In this situation, one can be guided by the principle of the inadmissibility of imposing a single development model that does not consider the specifics of the cultural and historical conditions of individual countries and peoples. Coercion, for example, to the market or democracy is a characteristic of a «Western state», but the path of each nation is based on its own idea of justice.