States to develop an alternative to the Marxist account of social development. In its most sophisticated variants, modernization theory explains modernization by reference to. the onset of the process that Talcott Parsons refers to as structural differentiation. This is a. process which may be triggered in many different ways, but which is most likely to be initiated by.
An adjective is the part of speech (or word class) that modifies a noun or a pronoun. Adjective: adjectival. In addition to their basic (or positive) forms (for example, big and beautiful), most descriptive adjectives have two other forms: comparative (bigger and more beautiful) and superlative (biggest and most beautiful).
(grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending -est to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting most before it.