SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Protestant Work Ethic, Class Conflict, Feudalism
9 May 2016
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> development results from people building up skills, knowledge and self-confidence to shape their social and physical environment in order to improve in the areas of economic growth, equity in income distribution and political freedom. Key themes: progress, social evolution, change, and development by stages (rostow, last week) Theories are a set of propositions which summarize, organize, and explain/ prodigy facts, conditions, or events . Modernization: the view from the north (developed countries) Expansion of industry and manufacturing: population growth, importance of the state___ as agent of economic development, decline of colonial empires, capitalist development - a global phenomenon *most important. Expansion of us markets in the decolonizing world (africa and asia) Maurice dobb: progress is the law of life and continuous improvement is the normal state of a healthy society . Thought they shared: the intellectual concern in trying to identify the basic features of societies that promote or inhibit their development.
