Rostow's Theory

Moller explores the topic of love and death, of how a bereaved spouse can quickly manage to move on from the death of their (supposed) significant other. However, in exploring the adaptive theory, it demonstrates humans are resilient in facing the turmoil’s of lost. Additionally, this counts for other (significant) losses; the loss of a child, home, tenure, their spinal cord, etc. The theory explains these catastrophes are merely ‘minor’ blips in our lives, and don’t affect our long-term happiness. This is because the effects of the event decrease (assumed to be the span of three months), and we begin (or already have) returned to our normalized state. However, this is problematic in some cases where the deceased spouse could have been the breadwinner,

In the alleged undeveloped social orders, components of radical political, monetary and social change are broadly apparent. For sure such social orders have seen significant advances in industrial change, mass transportation and correspondence, and also technology advances. In many parts of the world, change of economics activities and their expulsion from the family and community settings and in addition modifications in the family structure and labor market differing qualities is generally clear (CCP, n.d). In many social orders, the transition procedure from traditional settings to modern settings is moving along quick without the essential time period for modification. The same changes that took Europe and North America eras to finish are accomplished inside a range of era in present day creating social orders. Thus, the transition procedure is regularly described by disturbance, flimsiness, and fast social disintegration.

Rostow's suggests that development is seen as an evolutionary process that countries progress up a ladder, his five-stage model;

Why is it so difficult for the poorest societies to get to a foothold on the development ladder?

Economic Development: Growth is associated with structural, social change and change in the important institutions of the economy.

Malcolm Gladwell claim is immensely effective at proving his claim about Granovetter’s theory. That the main reason for riots goes neck and neck with the pattern of school shootings. In the article, “Thresholds of Violence”, Gladwell really tries to states his claims as to why he thinks that school shootings are become such a big matter. Gladwell says his thought about how it's more of a “modern phenomenon” as well as a “slow motion ever evolving riot”. Gladwell provides many incidents, examples, and facts to make his claim reliable.

In the final stage, we have the post-industrial society. In this society, service is the primary occupation, rather than agriculture or industry. Improved transportation and especially communication helped to develop the post-industrial society, but so did advancements in industrial and agricultural production that allows most people to leave those fields (Boundless.com,

Capitalism was the next phase. It is an industrialized system that appeared and was developed in the 18th century after industrial

The lifeblood of these regimes is the dissatisfied citizens, the unimpressed masses who desire revolution and freedom from poverty, which is propogated to have risen out of Capitalist involvement in the Americas. Capitalist economies, on the other hand, believe that it has nothing to do with their involvement and instead sees these stages of development as natural, something that every economy will go through, if they have not already. Despite the appeal, it is untrue to say that every developed nation has gone through stages of development that todays underdeveloped nations are going through. As Andre Gunder Frank puts it “the now developed countries were never underdeveloped, though they may have been undeveloped” (104). This goes to show that the playing field was not even for all, and that today's developing nations had a headstart in developing.

How does a country go from being a mostly agrarian based economy, with less than 10% of their population in cities (Uno), to a leading industrial power? Many factors contributed to it however it was not until 1978 that the economy boomed as “Prior to the 1978 reforms

The second stage called preconditions for takeoff is distinguished largely by the development of technology requiring innovation. This would then allow production to become more efficient producing higher yields of produce opening the gates of trade as surplus produce can be sold for a profit. This will encourage manufacturing to take place attracting attention from an international level allowing the society to open up to different markets instead of being restricted to only their domestic one which forces the society to broaden their outlook and not only focus on the limited regional markets and communities.

Economic growth, put simply, is “an increase in the amount of goods and services produced per head of the population over a period of time”; development is inextricably linked with this economic growth. By utilising theories of economic growth and development we can see how the Chinese and Sub-Saharan African economies have emerged, but, more notably, we can use these to look at patterns from past and present to show their experience and the implications of this growth for the future.

Neoliberal globalization is an economic system that promotes free market policies of liberalization, deregulation, privatization, and the cutting of social support systems. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank help promote these policies by making structural adjustment programs conditions for any aid or support. Unfortunately, once structural adjustment programs are put into place they tend to disrupt developing countries’ economies and end up making them even worse off than before. Before the 1980s, developing countries had a per capita growth rate of more than 3%, once these policies were put into place growth rates dropped to 1.7% (Hickel 2012: 7). This provides evidence that these programs are pushed at developing countries

In this transition we see traditional agrarian families becoming involved in a market orientated production. The land was no longer the primary source of wealth. There was a move towards the commercialisation of agriculture in the time of proto-industrialisation. Peasants would produce crops and goods for sale on the international market rather than for their own consumption. Peasants had to accumulate money to trade within the town centres because they could no longer produce all of their own goods. The development of town centres is another way in which we see a shift towards capitalism. Goods were being sold to make a profit and not only to sustain a

He pointed out that different economic levels have their own requirements and they may not follow the same process of industrialization. Moreover, he raised the most influential theory related to late industrialization that the economically backward states may have rapider growth rate as they are late comers, and the national development process relied on the degree of economic backwardness. That is to say the more backward a country, the faster it will advance (ibid).