SOSC 1430 Lecture 3: Modernization Perspecitves
27 Oct 2015
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2. (5) processes in a changing global context: competing interpretations, summary, assessment. Importance of the state as agent of economic development: decline of colonial empires * ex: india and china gaining independence, capitalist development a global phenomenon. Their significance (5 processes: growth and expansion of national markets. Industrial revolution: great britain, france, germany: expansion of us markets in the decolonizing world (africa and asia) Maurice dobb (author): progress is the law of life and continuous improvement is the normal state of a healthy society . Found inspiration in: karl marx (1818 1883, emile durkheim (1858 1917) * father of sociology he taught society can be analyzed as a system, max webber (1864 1920) *he was an economist. Though, they shared: the intellectual concern in trying to identify the basic features of societies that promote or inhibit their development. Some explanations resonated with: comparative method (from biology)
