SISU-240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: World-Systems Theory, Social Change, Dependency Theory
17 Jan 2016
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Some are advanced in one, but faulty in others. Recently democracy and some degree of socioeconomic equality have been considered integral parts of development. All three are related, but not absolutely related. Follow a path of political and economic modernization parallel to the western. Had to acquire modern cultural values and create modern polical and economic institutions. Through education, urbanization and spread of mass media. Differences between modern and traditional cultures aren"t clear-cut. Rejected that third world countries could follow the same path. Western colonialism and economic imperialism are what turned africa, asian and. Posed that underdevelopment wasn"t the developing world"s fault. Single and integrated historical process had differential results for different countries vs. Assumed that the problem of development was an original state of non-development. catch-up was impossible under capitalism vs development was a process through which traditional societies would catch up with modern ones.
