POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean, Modernization Theory, Human Nature

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2XX3
• Professor: Nibaldo Galleguillos

Document Summary

It is seen as an ideologically leftist, marxist approach. Human nature is a constant, regardless of traditions, religions etc we are all human beings who tend to more or less, behave more or less the same. They behave di erently because they have to make decisions and choice based on di erent environments/conditions/circumstances. Dependency shifts the focus of analysis from that of the nation-state to a view of a single, uni ed, world capitalist economic system. World capitalism created the conditions of underdevelopment and maintains it in existence today. The one and the same historical process of the emergence, expansion, and consolidation of capitalism throughout the entire world has simultaneously generated and continues to generate both economic development and structural underdevelopment. Development and underdevelopment are thus the opposite faces of the same coin, rather than sequentially related stages of growth.