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  1. In the social sciences, the acquisition by a
  2. society of industrial techniques and
  3. technology; hence the common classification
  4. of the `developed' nations of the First and
  5. Second Worlds and the poorer, `developing' or
  6. `underdeveloped' nations of the Third World.
  7. The assumption that development in the sense
  8. of industrialization was inherently good has
  9. been increasingly questioned since the 1960s.
  10. Many universities today have academic
  11. departments of development studies, that
  12. address the theoretical questions involved in
  13. proposing practical solutions to the problems
  14. of development in the Third World. ..UTXY:
  15. Human societies have developed in other areas
  16. as well - the arts, religion, econoomics,
  17. politics - but technology has always been
  18. available for assessment, since prehistory.
  19.