SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Core Countries, Structural Adjustment, World-Systems Theory
18 Apr 2016
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Vast inequalities within canada (e. g. ethnic and gender) Life expectancy: canada: 81 years, mozambique: 39 years. Development: discussions of global inequities are usually considered as dealing with. Similar to evolution, darwin, just like an individual or species develops, societies develop from more simplistic to more complex (e. g. hunter foragers to agriculturalists, to industrialism) Example: marx"s theory: stages of development: hunter-gatherer, slave, feudal, capitalist, Western path: focuses on the west as the most developed, suggests that the rest will socialist follow its path. Reactionary: reaction to views of development that equate development with the west o. Original view simply says that every other place is eventually going to develop like the west, essentially saying that everyone needs to be like the west and the west is development. Discourse: began with colonialism and strengthened by powerful global actors (the imf, the us, etc. ) o o o o o o.
