POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Structural Functionalism, Comparative Politics, Gabriel Almond
11 Dec 2015
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They can justify inaction ideas can shape action ideas linked to interests they can even obscure/distort perception. The countries of the global south, will follow through with all the political stuff that the north tells them, which leads them to the final state of which they started from. Modernization vs. neoliberalism: similar economic and political path (evolution toward the liberal democracy in the western sky) different on issue of role of state (neoliberalism is placed to reducing the role of the state) The path to modernity: fundamental change of woman and man, very similar to the north, changes in value. Examples of scholars taking the modernization approach: david. Values and development: they focused on if the right values were present or not max weber (19th/early 20th century) german sociologist the protestant. Ethic and the spirit of capitalism (his book) - structural conditions make development possible, values determine whether development actually happens structural condition (break down the aristocratic class)
