INDEV101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amartya Sen, Commodification, Nationstates
23 Nov 2016
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In development studies, culture is used to explain poverty/economic growth/violence. Helps to explain a bunch of concepts around development. Modernizations theories undervalued culture with emphasis on reason (only gives one fixed formula for. Things that exist for a long time become a culture development) Post-modern and post-colonial approaches challenge modernization theories by privileging the study of culture. Many different types of definitions, see lecture slides. The pattern of meanings embodied in symbolic forms, including actions, utterances, and meaningful objects of various kinds, by virtue of which individuals communicated with one another and share their experiences, conceptions, and beliefs. Culture must be understood in relation to its linkages with the economic sphere. Capitalism structures (in various ways) the cultural forms that are produced. Capitalism is a social system based on the principle of individual rights. Capitalist view is that culture can be produced and imposed. Commodification and transmission of culture are now global in scope.
