Sociological Explanations for Development Quiz
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Questions
What should initiate development according to Rostow?
Western aid and multinational investment.
What does modernisation theory blame for lack of development in the developing World?
The culture and institutions of developing countries.
Identify one Western value and one Western institution which modernisation theory claims should be introduced into the Third World.
Any values from: achievement, competition, individualism. Any institutions from: the nuclear family, Western-type schools, democracy and Western forms of media especially radio and television.
Identify two types of historical exploitation of developing countries according to dependency theory.
Slavery and colonialism.
What do dependency theorists mean by neo-colonialism?
Modern forms of exploitation such as Western domination of world trade, debt dependency and multinational/transnational use of cheap labour, etc.
What causes under-development according to dependency theory?
The systematic and deliberate exploitation of developing countries by the West.
What does Foster-Carter mean when he accuses both modernisation and dependency theories of being over-deterministic?
They both ignore or neglect the capacity of people within developing countries to bring about development and/or resist Western exploitation.
