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SOC 251

Development and Underdevelopment in the Capitalist
SOC 251 SP

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Next Offered in 9798 SP

World-System An evaluation of the main theories in the sociology of development and the alternative perspectives that have been advanced since the 1960s. The course will begin by considering some of the conventional theories of modernization, followed by the radical critiques of those theories because of their inability to adequately explain the causes and perpetuation of underdevelopment in the Third World. We will evaluate the operative concepts of the alternative theories and the extent to which they can adequately analyze the processes of Third World underdevelopment. Dependency, Marxist and world-system theories will be among the alternatives considered.

MAJOR READINGS

Walt Rostow, THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
Alsiri Lipietz, MIRAGES AND MIRACLES
A.G. Frank, LATIN AMERICA: UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTION
F. H. Cardoso and E. Faletto, DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENT
IN LATIN AMERICA
I. Wallerstein, THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECONOMY
Cyril E. Black, ed. COMPARATIVE MODERNIZATION
Jay Mandle, PATTERNS OF CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT
Stephen Haggard, PATHWAYS FROM THE PERIPHERY
David Becker, et. al., POST-IMPERALISM
Bell Warren, IMPERIALISM: PIONEER OF CAPITALISM

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three take-home essays (8-10 pages each).

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Prerequisite: SOC-151 or permission of instructor to obtain prerequisite override. This course may be taken by Sociology majors to fulfill the research course requirement. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS SOC

Prerequisites: SOC 151

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997



About the Photo:

The painting ECHO OF A SCREAM, by David Alfaro Siqueiros, conveys the despair of underdevelopment in the "Third World."

Reference:

Robertson, Ian. SOCIOLOGY, 3rd ed., New York: Worth Publishers, Inc., 1987



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