SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Structural Adjustment, Live Aid, Walt Whitman Rostow
3 Dec 2012
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Absolute poverty- so little income that survival is difficult. Relative poverty- significantly less income than others. Low-income cut-off (lico)- level of income at which more than 55% of income is spent on basic necessities. A large # of canadians are poor and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Intragenerational mobility: within one"s lifetime (no occupation mobility) Government was spending a disproportionate amount of gdp on the military instead of food, health and aid. Sociologists looked past things such as drought being the cause of millions of deaths, and blamed it more on the government and the wider social structure. Since 1970 income inequality has increased globally. Concept extends beyond economic development to include: protection of children, progress for women, political rights for marginalized groups, environmental instability. Rostow: poor countries never took off (acquire new technology, economic boom) Early societies have the ability to change. Values, norms, belief systems will shape economic development.
