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Modernising the World
- Intro
- Explains the process of modernisation in societies
- Explains the process of modernisation in societies
- Background
- Post WW2
- Countries remained poor despite exposure to capitalism
- Such instability seen by US economists
- Countries remained poor despite exposure to capitalism
- Post WW2
- Aims
- Explain why poorer countries haven't developed
- Provide a solution to poverty
- Introduce western values
- Introduce western values
- Provide a solution to poverty
- Explain why poorer countries haven't developed
- Rostow
- Development - evolutionary process to climb ladder
- Stage 1 - Traditional Societies
- Stage 2 - Preconditions for Take Off
- Stage 3 - Take Off
- Stage 4 - Drive to Maturity
- Stage 5 - Age of High Mass Consumption
- Stage 1 - Traditional Societies
- Development - evolutionary process to climb ladder
- Parsons
- Traditional values act as barrier
- Need to adopt values like meritocracy
- Leads to emergence of 'entrepreneurial spirit'
- Traditional values act as barrier
- Motors
- Hoselitz (1960) - meritocratic education
- Speed up spread of Western Values
- Speed up spread of Western Values
- Inkeles (1969) - mass media
- Diffuse ideas of need to be geographically mobile
- Diffuse ideas of need to be geographically mobile
- Hoselitz (1960) - meritocratic education
- Criticisms
- Ethnocentric
- Degrades developing countries
- Ignores the crisis of
modernism, e.g. Wales
- Excludes sociologists in developing world
- Degrades developing countries
- Ecological Limits
- Cannot be extended to all societies - planet is limited
- Cannot be extended to all societies - planet is limited
- Ethnocentric
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