SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Gross National Income, Moral Economy
27 Oct 2015
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Development: stability, evolution, progress: technological innovation, change. It might be experienced as suffering: displacement, poverty. *development influences peace global relationships politics and therefore our lives. Ideas about development transpire in institutions, practices and politics (development is about power) Therefore we should look at: the definition itself *what it tries to convey, why organizations support the ideas, processes, dynamics * how development occurs. Industrial revolution (18th century eurpoe, 1760-1840: social transformation, peasants displaced. Enlightenment: reason search for scientific explanations, modernity: science, technology, secular * secular says religion should not affect public decisions. Linear, progressive: evolutionary * live darwin"s theory of natural selection, the fittest survive. Secular: a western perspective, eurocentrism * conveys the idea that the european culture is greater than other cultures so it diminishes non-european cultures, histories and societies, third world societies and non-european cultures are defined negatively. Become like us * europeans say you cannot develop because you are missing out on our technology and shit .
