List of top Sociology of Development Questions on Development theories

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

_______ 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.

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

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 _________.

“The capitalistic economy of the present day is an immense cosmos into which the individual is born, and which presents itself to him, at least as an individual, as an unalterable order of things in which he must live. … In order that a manner of life so well adapted to the peculiarities of capitalism could be selected at all, i.e. should come to dominate others, it had to originate somewhere, and not in isolated individuals alone, but as a way of life common to whole groups of men. This origin is what really needs explanation. … The question of the motive forces in the expansion of modern capitalism is not in the first instance a question of the origin of the capital sums which were available for capitalistic uses, but, above all, of the development of the spirit of capitalism. Where it appears and is able to work itself out, it produces its own capital and monetary supplies as the means to its ends, but the reverse is not true.”
(Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism)
Which among the following is/are Weber’s argument(s) in the above excerpt?

In ‘The Nation and its Fragments’ (1993), Partha Chatterjee observes that nationalism linked the legitimacy of the postcolonial Indian state with economic development. In what way(s) was this connection achieved, for Chatterjee?