POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Periphery Countries, Modernization Theory, Ibm System R
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Modernization and dependency: alternative perspectives in the study of latin american underdevelopment- valenzuela. Modernization perspective: it is essential to consider the cultural characteristics of new nations in determining their potential for development. Touches on the non-economic factors of development. Widespread economic stagnation in latin america post wwii. Comparing conceptual approaches of modernization/ dependency to latin america. Societies are thought to move from tradition to modernity. This idea that modernization is an inevitable road all countries will eventually take. The traditional society is variously understood to have a preponderance to ascriptive, particularistic, disuse affective patterns of action. Little social mobility, most primary economic activities, elitist and hierarchal sources of authority pg 537. Modern: universalistic, achievement, merit based, specific, neutral orientations, complex occupational system, high rates of social mobility, secondary economic activities, rational legal sources of authority. In order to enter the world, traditional societies have to overcome norms and make way for social, economic and political transformations.