SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Determinism, Import Substitution Industrialization, Long Key
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Before agriculture was slash and burn. with modernization, came new ways. cut off trees to grow, field rotations. Emile durkheim wrote on division of labor in society, subdivided into tasks. Max weber talked of increase in rationality of our processes. If it is a process, we need a beginning and end. Evolved from traditional way of doing things, which was the beginning. Based on durkheim and weber descriptions, we are now post modern. 5 dimensions of modernization intellectual: a better understanding of the world. If we understand better, we can control more. Political modernization: consolidation of policy making in formal terms. Then centralization of power in state administration. , controlled resources (upward of 50% of total resources). States need to be convincing, rely on participation of people, to provide legitimacy of tax collection, etc. economic: specialization which durkheim described. cities had mechanisms in middle ages.
