INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nationstates, Walt Whitman Rostow, Mixed Economy
16 Dec 2012
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Came in response to the failure of developing countries to sustain development. Walter rostow (1960): the stages of economic growth: a non-communist manifesto, 5 stages through which all countries pass in process of economic growth (towards capitalism, stage 1: traditional society. Not abstract: stage 2: preconditions for take off. Traditional alongside modern economic institutions: stage 3: take off. Agriculture more commercialized: stage 4: drive to maturity. Decreased imports: stage 5: age of high mass consumption. Increased importance of consumer goods and services. Rise of the welfare state: critique: uni-linear, eurocentric, sequential economic growth vs. development, simplistic, based on the european model, doesn"t have human welfare in mind. Talcot parsons: the structure of social action (1937) Affective neutral: roles whose performance is affectively neutral (impersonal) Achievement: roles in which achievement is the basis of status. Specificity: roles specific to particular function as in a bureaucracy. Ascription: roles according to non achievable status or attributes (sex, age, family, position)
