Modernization theory - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Difference between GDP and GNI correct answers - GDP: Gross Domestic Product → PRODUCTION - GNI: Gross National Income → INCOME (includes wages, salaries, and property income) What is HDI? correct answers - Human Development Index - Accounts for life expectancy, educational attainment, and personal income Concept of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) correct answers - Purchasing Power Parity: corrective measure, the economic theory that allows the comparison of the purchasing power of var...

IB GLOBAL POLITICS DEVELOPMENT LATEST UPDATE GRADED A+ Development Development is a sustained increase in the standard of living and well-being of a level of social organization. Many consider it to involve increased income; better access to basic goods and services; improvements in education, healthcare, and public health; well- functioning institutions; decreased inequality; reduced poverty and unemployment; and more sustainable production and consumption patterns. The focus on dev...

IB Global Politics - Development (3) Test Exam Latest and Verified development - CORRECT ANSWER-- a universal basic aim for individuals as the continuous rise of living standards and the wellbeing of a social organization - largely shaped around how countries can "catch up" to their wealthy counterparts - the creation of a stable and prosperous society with a universal respect for human rights; peace and security Modernization Theory (1960s) - CORRECT ANSWER-- Rostow's plan to move ...

HCAD 222 Lifespan vs. Life Course - correct answers Lifespan-period of time you are a live Life course-meaningful patterns and events during your lifespan Modernization Aging Theory - correct answers Status of elderly declines as the world modernizes Disengagement Aging Theory - correct answers old age is mutual seperation between old people and society Activity Aging Theory - correct answers the more things you do late in life the more life satisfaction continuity theory - corre...

IB Global Politics - Development (3) Test Exam Latest and Verified development - CORRECT ANSWER-- a universal basic aim for individuals as the continuous rise of living standards and the wellbeing of a social organization - largely shaped around how countries can "catch up" to their wealthy counterparts - the creation of a stable and prosperous society with a universal respect for human rights; peace and security Modernization Theory (1960s) - CORRECT ANSWER-- Rostow's plan to move ...

Sociology Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+ A ________ is based on both social factors and individual achievement while a ________ is based on one in which people are born into their social standing no vertical mobility is allowed - class system; caste system Which of the following describe ways that class systems differ from slavery and castes? - Class positions are in some part achieved. The two types of stratification systems are ________, which do not allow ...

Education and Civil Society - - Promoted to continue development forward - Creates informed population, which becomes aware of what's wrong in a system - Uses reasoning capabilities to create something better Challenges to Modernization Theory - - China is not democratic, but is extremely modernized and wealthy - There are democratic nations without modernization and are therefore not wealthy Democratic Stability Theory - - Drops the cause and effect relationship posed in the Moderniza...

INS3003 Exam 2 Study Guide. Democracy - answerGovernment by the people; form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents Samuel Huntington - answerClash of civilizations First Wave of Democracy - answerUS becomes new nation, Enlightenment for classical liberalism Second Wave of Democracy - answerDecolonization and spread of Democracy across Latin America and Africa Third Wave of Democracy - answerRise of democ...

Politics - ANSWER Struggle for authority to make common decision through use of power Power - ANSWER The ability to make decisions for the largest group KKV Valid Inference - ANSWER Application of theories in empirical world or theory building HD Scientific Method - ANSWER A way of checking on the formulation of concepts and testing the possible linkages between them through references to observable phenomena Hypothesis - ANSWER A testable theory Causation - ANSWER smoking cigaret...

____ refers to high school graduates who have not mastered the skills they should have learned in grade school - Functional Illiteracy ____ theory says all societies follow the same path and each evolves from simpler to more complex forms - Unilinear _____ enables a person to exert his or her will even in the face of opposition - Power _____ examines human impact on the environment and the impact of the environment on humans - Environmental Sociology _____ is embedded in the origin in eve...