This document provides an overview and analysis of Walter Rostow's five-stage model of development and its relevance to concepts of globalization. It discusses how Rostow proposed linear stages of development culminating in a Western-style mass consumption society. It also critiques Rostow's model as privileging Westernization, being top-down, and not considering external factors or grassroots development approaches. The document concludes by noting how modernization projects faced new forms of resistance in the era of globalization from social groups who felt marginalized.