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