modernisers
Progress-pushing agents
Modernisers are people who advocate for or implement updates to systems, institutions, or practices to bring them in line with contemporary standards or technologies.
The term appears most often in political and institutional contexts, where modernisers push for reform against traditionalist resistance.
The modernisers in the party argued for embracing digital campaigning.
This is the British spelling; American English uses modernizers.
Creators of novel things
- disruptorsThose who destabilize systems
- technologistsApplied science practitioners
- entrepreneursThose who launch ventures
- inventorsCreators of new devices
visionaries · futurists · trailblazers · early adopters · digital natives · technocrats · digitizers · startup founders
Advocates for institutional improvement
- progressivesSocial reform advocates
- activistsPeople working for causes
- advocatesThose who support causes
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
crusaders · pioneers · changemakers · liberals · radicals · revolutionaries · democratizers · emancipators
Those who update properties
- revitalizersThings that restore vitality
- restorersThose who repair and renew
- rebuildersThose who restore structures
- regeneratorsThings that renew or restore
revivalists · transformers · remodelers · upgraders · restructurers · refurbishers · redevelopers
Those who initiate popular styles
- tastemakersThose shaping popular preferences
- fashion-forwardEmbracing emerging styles
- avant-gardistsRadical artistic experimenters
- cosmopolitansWorldly, well-traveled people
innovators
Creators of novel things
- disruptorsThose who destabilize systems
- technologistsApplied science practitioners
- entrepreneursThose who launch ventures
inventors · visionaries · futurists · trailblazers · early adopters · digital natives · technocrats · digitizers · startup founders · industrializers
reformers
Advocates for institutional improvement
- progressivesSocial reform advocates
- activistsPeople working for causes
- advocatesThose who support causes
campaigners · crusaders · pioneers · changemakers · liberals · radicals · revolutionaries · democratizers · emancipators · abolitionists
renovators
Those who update properties
- revitalizersThings that restore vitality
- restorersThose who repair and renew
- rebuildersThose who restore structures
regenerators · revivalists · transformers · remodelers · upgraders · restructurers · refurbishers · redevelopers
trendsetters
Those who initiate popular styles
- tastemakersThose shaping popular preferences
- fashion-forwardEmbracing emerging styles
- avant-gardistsRadical artistic experimenters
cosmopolitans · urbanizers · globalizers · secularists · youth movements
moderniserstraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
conservatives · reactionaries · preservationists · old guard · die-hards
modernisersobstructionists
Those who deliberately impede
foot-draggers · do-nothings · blockers · hardliners · fossils
modernisersrestorationists
Those who return things to original state
revivalists · atavists · throwbacks · primitivists · backsliders