SOCI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fuel Industries, Infant Mortality, Protestant Work Ethic
3 May 2018
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SOCI 254 – MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONS
Truman’s Speech
• “ettig the Ne World Order, deelopetal odel for the orld i the cotet of
the cold war
• 4th poit: he sas e are read to iteree
o Demarcating a significant proportion of the world as uderdeelopet
▪ Countries are marked as poor
o This point is brought up a loti in post-developmental theory
o Underdevelopment is seen as a security threat (cold war context)
▪ Development is necessary for countries to be democratic and capitalist
TRUE OR FALSE
The HDI does not measure school enrollment rates: FALSE
• Health (life expectancy, infant mortality), education (literacy, school enrollment),
Income (GDP per capita)
• Measuring development
The export of slaves from Africa to the Americas starting in the 1600s was driven mostly by a
demand for household servants: FALSE
• Indigenous societies lives lost slaves needed
o Human colonialism underpinned by race thinking
• Fuel industries
Truman: Underdevelopment was a threat to the entire world: TRUE
• Soviet Union, cold war dynamics
o Decolonized countries can turn communist
Marx argued that the base (the economy) determines the superstructure (ideas): TRUE
• Historical version of materialism
• Marx believes economy comes first
• Superstructure: state, culture, military, art etc.
o Everything is a reflection of capitalist society
• Weber may disagree: religion/ideas influence economics
o Not a pure idealist
o Protestant ethic
Weber thought modern capitalism was about greed: FALSE
• Open-ended accumulation, denial of gratification
• RATIONAL labour, rational book-keeping, coming from this anxiety to go to heaven
o Pre-modern capitalism is booty capitalism
o If it is about greed, capitalism has existed forever
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Document Summary
The hdi does not measure school enrollment rates: false: health (life expectancy, infant mortality), education (literacy, school enrollment), The export of slaves from africa to the americas starting in the 1600s was driven mostly by a demand for household servants: false. Indigenous societies lives lost slaves needed: human colonialism underpinned by race thinking, fuel industries. Truman: underdevelopment was a threat to the entire world: true: soviet union, cold war dynamics, decolonized countries can turn communist. Weber thought modern capitalism was about greed: false: open-ended accumulation, denial of gratification, rational labour, rational book-keeping, coming from this anxiety to go to heaven, pre-modern capitalism is booty capitalism. If it is about greed, capitalism has existed forever. The bretton woods institutions were designed to prevent any form of state interference in the economy: false. Initial mandate was to provide loans to europe: currency stabilization, keynesianism: times of crises, state would intervene and spend, withdraw when market is going well.
