Dependency Theory

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Datos Bibliográficos

ID2274296
AutoresEdwin Hoffman Rhyne
Año1990
Volumen60
Número4
Páginas370-385
Fecha de publicación1990-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.1990.tb00155.x
OpenAlexW2051011064
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas48

Many recent signs, empirical and analytic, raise questions about dependency/worldsystems theory. The difficulties are not new warnings but reminders that the theory has always had problems stemming from the close and logically unavoidable connections among three major beliefs or tenets: (1) the unchallenged omnipotence of the North Atlantic metropole throughout the world; (2) the neglect of indigenous variables as possible explanations of development; and (3) the implied assumption that growth and development are the normal state of affairs. It is argued that the first, and defining, tenet of dependency theory cannot be sustained unless the other two are also true and that this is the source of an increasingly ill-fitting correspondence between the theory and major characteristics of the Third World

Dependency (UML) · Economic geography · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Neglect · Omnipotence · Pace · Path dependency · Positive economics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · World Systems and Global Transformations