GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Modernization Theory, Walt Whitman Rostow, World-Systems Theory
3 Jan 2017
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The world is marked by striking spatial variations in terms of well being: the haves" and have nots". we can talk about it in objects such as laptops or fundamental aspects such as health care and education. These variations exist at a numerous of spatial scales: e. g. global, regional, national, local. There are different levels of development throughout communities (employment, education) We generally think about development as a continuum between two points: third world vs rst (capitalist) and second (socialist, south vs north, underdeveloped vs developed, developing vs developed, less developed vs more developed. Characteristics of the less developed world in relation to the more developed world include: higher poverty rates, higher mortality; higher fertility, lower literacy, less industrialized, lower life expectancy; lower development. *how will these (largely poor) nations achieve economic independence three theories emerged: modernization theory (walter rostow, economist)
