DEVS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Patrilineality, Primogeniture, Global Politics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 240
• Professor: Paritosh Kumar

Document Summary

Whose development?-an ethnography of aid: emma crewe and elizabeth. * social evolution: its paradigms imply that societies progress through stages. * ex. development means movement from traditional to modernity, and that technological evolution is an essential part of development, also the idea that a progressive quality of life means more money and acquisitions. * why then does the process of modernization falter if new technology and increased income are made available to developing people: an evolutionist"s explanation would see traditional culture as a barrier. * the definition of culture in light of the previous sentence can be defined as: a collection of rituals and customs exhibited principally by the less evolved, at times to be celebrated an at other rimes to be overcome. * cultures are always evolving and varying from different cultures and institutions, which makes it hard to truly determine the constructs of culture.