List of top Sociology of Development Questions

_______ theory postulates that developing economies will catch up with developed economies if they follow the social and economic models of Western capitalism.

________________________________ theory most appropriately describes a hierarchy of wealthy ‘core’ nations, poor ‘periphery’ nations, and a middle group of ‘semi-periphery’ nations.

The example(s) of relations of production is/are ____}.

According to the World Commission on Environment and Development, ‘sustainable development’ refers to __________________.

The stable pattern of ‘modern men’ formulated by Alex Inkeles does not include ________________.

According to Max Weber, in addition to power what are the other TWO distinct components of stratification?

Which of the following statements are correct?
[i] Gustavo Esteva argues that the 1949 address of the US President Harry S. Truman marks the opening of the era of development.
[ii] According to Escobar, ‘development can best be described as an apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the Third World with the deployment of forms of power and intervention, resulting in the mapping and production of Third World societies’.

Which of the following institutions provides the structural link between caste and gender in kinship in India?

In the 1960s, India adopted a heavy usage of high yielding varieties of seed, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and new machines to raise the productivity of agricultural land. This process was described as _________.

Resource mobilization theory of social movements analyses social movements as _________.