SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: World-Systems Theory, Dependency Theory, Neocolonialism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 254
• Professor: Emre David Amasyali

Document Summary

Lecture 7 - dependency theory and world system. Dependency theory: dependency theories, key argument, underdevelopment results from the structure of the capitalist system, disagreed with modernization theorists over, sources of underdevelopment, impact of the exposure to advanced countries, neo-colonialism. !1: analyses of the class expropriation of surplus value (especially paul baran & Sweezy: structuralists, such as the united nations economic commission for latin america (ecla) and. Import substitution industrialization (isi: main goal = break dependent relations through domestic industrialization, subsidize infant industries , practiced in brazil, argentina, mexico, and colombia, brazil vs. south korea. Fernando cardoso and dependent development: does not nd frank helpful in concrete terms, skepticism of blocked development , argued that dependent development is possible in the periphery, president of brazil (1995-2003) World systems theory: similar to dependency theory, it is interested in enters and peripheries, however, it is different in, unit of analysis is the world, moving beyond the dualism, having uid categories (they can change)