IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Western Culture, Subsistence Agriculture, Walt Whitman Rostow
30 Jul 2016
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Geographic - areas in the tropics have a higher disease burden which affect population and growth rates. Technological and scientific innovations - central to industrial revolution in nw europe (i. e. steam. Modernization theory developed at a specific juncture of these three contexts: o. Comparative cross-national research - two forms of social organization were identifies: traditional and rational (modern) as development involved the transition from one to the other. Interested in how to support self-sustaining growth and to provide a counter theory to marxism. Focused on using gdp growth as an index of development. Rostovian modernization theory beings with the question: what does being modern mean: differentiates societies into i. Modern: seen to be more industrialized and more technologically advanced, based on secular ii. ideologies, identify with nation-state: assumes this transition happened in sequential stages. Traditional society: low social mobility, barter economy, subsistence agriculture.
