SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Dependency Theory, Long Key, Victim Blaming
23 Jan 2013
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Modz + econ growth s/how linked, multi-dimensional. Increasing division of labour = critical step in modernization. Increasingly rational exchanges b/w nats = critical (max weber) Cyril black"s theory of development: the five dimensions: intellectual: science applied e/day processes/increasing understanding + control of environ. Renaissance: time when this was happening in a dramatic way. Printing press: made knowl more accessible, spread modernization: political: centralization, democracy. Movement away fr/small tribal units into much larger units. Consolidation in larger empires: economic: specialization, capitalism. Increasing centralization of state (states rely participation to pay taxes) democracy. Early: people had savings in form of animals: social: urbanization, public health, cultural progress. If urban pop not involved agricul, involved in s/thing else. Allows cities to propagate more urban, modern lifestyle. Cities have many ethnic backgrounds, social circles for ppl to play off of. Books, radios, sports: radio allows ppl absorb modernization: psychological: individualism, mobility aspiration. Instead of collective orientation of life, become more individual in interests (creative)
