SOC 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Orthodox Marxism, Immanence, Neo-Marxism

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 160
• Professor: Holtzclaw- Stone Nicole

Document Summary

Modernization school: evolutionary theory unidirectional, progress, slow change. Modernization is: phased, homogenizing, europeanization or americanization, irreversible, progressive, lengthy, functionalist theory (parsons) social institution interdependent, agil (societal stability), homeostatic equilibrium, pattern variables. Assumptions from functionalist theory modernization is: a systematic process, a transformative process, an immanent process, policy implications. Response to the failure of the ecla program. The decline of modernization school in the us: intellectual heritage. Leaders of socialist revolution: critique of modernization. Peripheral countries should sever ties with core countries. Socialist revolution to rid countries of ruling elites aligned with west. Differences of classic dependency and modernization schools modernization schools. Marxism orthodox school: social change result of class conflict, three distinctions from dependency theorists. Forces for social change internal to third world societies. Capitalism capable of producing growth in economies of third world. Imperialism, historical and neocolonial, is an agent of progress compelling third world societies, toward capitalist growth: modes of production.