SOC 1502
Unit 5
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Written Assignment Unit 5: Global Inequality
Global inequality is analyzed by sociologists in terms of three different theories: modernization theory, dependency theory and the theory of globalization. The dependency theory is viewed as a revolutionary ideology of Eurocentrism that is best expressed by modernization theory. Modernization theory is regarded as equally
Eurocentric and has been so from the start of its implementation. With the failure of national development and the rise of globalism, the dependency theory has not always satisfied the views of sociologists. The critique of Eurocentrism as a universally widespread event today is similar to the was the rise of dependency theory 50 years earlier. Modernization