EXPL 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Carport, Talcott Parsons, Dic Entertainment

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Immanuel wallerstein o o: global system from c16th (some say c15th), series of economic & political connections, based on expansion of capitalist world economy, made up of 3 arenas: core, semi periphery, periphery, beyond that external countries, core = modern, economic, industrial countries eg. usa, canada o. Get them away from traditional means of society: get them to be rational legal, get them to be more like us, assembly lime, relatively optimistic o, central agents = education, urbanisation, increased exposure to mass media. Summary implications: lack of development just early stage all developing societies gradually moving towards modernity, lack of development = fault of ldc"s socioeconomic systems, development = straightforward process, assumption that west will continue to progress, why is it important, many of these theorists worked with development agencies, especially usa and un, whole range of policies based on it.

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