theorists Flashcards
(44 cards)
what does Lash and Urry (1987) argue?
-Liberal, organised and disorganised capitalism
Factors determining timing of organisation are:
1) Size of country
2) Bourgeois revolution
3) Time to take of
Consequences (comparative thesis):
-Extent of organization determines process of organisation
What did Hall and Soskice (2001) argue about capitalism
1) Institutional similarities/differences among developed countries
2) Variations of national political economies
3) actor-centred approach (individuals, firms produced)
4) Regulatory regimes at nation-state level
What did Hall and Soskice (2001) say about institutions?
1) made of formal/informal rules
2) Socialisation through agencies
3) Power
4) lots of sanctions/incentives
What does Bell (1973) argue for?
End of organised capitalism:
1) economic- displacement of manufacturing
2) technology - information processes
3) stratification system
What does Offe (1985) argue?
unemployment removes people from contact with central power mechanism of capitalist society
How is Ritzer (2005) linked to the disorganisation of capitalism?
Mcdonalisation - franchises
Giddens (1992)?
- identity politics
- Social disembedding
- Social reflexivity
Baudrillard (1984)?
- Hyperconsumerism
- Death of industry
- Social media and market corporate control
What did escobar (1995) argue about dependency theory?
1) Development is a discourse and is historically produced by MEDC’s
2) fluidity and heterogeneity of development discourse
What were Rostow’s (1960) stages of development?
Stages of Economic Growth:
1) Traditional society
2) Preconditions for take-off
3) Take-off
4) Drive to maturity
5) Age of high consumption
what were Eisenstadt’s (1973) 2 ideas on modernisation from LEDC’s to MEDC’s?
1) Process of change where less developed countries developed characteristics common to more developed societies
2) Achievement of modernity while maintaining social cohesion and equilibrium
what’s Adams (2005) argument?
3rd wave (turn/multiple modernities) comp soc involves:
1) rational actor choice
2) feminist challenges
3) institutionalism
What 3 points did Goldthorpe (1994) argue for?
1) Idiographic (specific trends/nomothetic (scientific) distinction
2) Comp soc based on 2nd hand research
3) Lack of rules leads to: ‘pick and mix’ in history
What did Ragin (1987) argue that the best approach to Comp Soc was?
Qualitative approach as is higher in validity
What is the dependency theory from Frank (1969)?
1) Underdevelopment result of colonialism
2) Periphery is integrated into world capitalist system through slavery
3) historical process that generated western development and poverty in LEDC’s
World systems theory applied to development
What did Mahoney (2000) say about Spain/England comparison?
Path-dependency
Mercantilist comparison of trade between Britain and Spain
Britain
- colonised less developed areas
- less extensive colonialism
Spain
- colonised more developed areas
- more extensive colonialism
What are the 5 points (including example from 1st year) of Mahoney (2000)?
1) past influences future
2) path dependency is a vague concept
3) self-reinforcing sequences exist
4) reactive chains can alter paths
5) mercantilist Spain and liberal British colonial comparison (free market)
What does Robinson (2001) argue about path dependency?
1) There are institutional differences between countries colonised by Europeans
2) institutions influence states and thus policies
What were Eisenstadt’s (1973) 2 modernisation theory?
1) process of change where LEDC’s developed characteristics common to MEDC’s
2) achievement of modernity while maintaining social cohesion and equilibrium
Whats Adams (2005) argument?
3rd wave (turn/multiple modernities) involves:
1) rational actor choice
2) feminist challenges
3) institutionalism
What 3 points did Goldthorpe (1994) argue for?
1) idiographic distinction (specific trends) + (scientific)
2) comp soc based on 2nd hand research
3) lack of rules leads to pick&mix in history
Kobrin (1997)?
Global economy doesn’t include entire world
Beck (2007)?
- Methodological nationalism
- Global risk society
Connell (2007)?
- Geo-political location of production affects sociological knowledge of globalisation
- Northern theory
