Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Assess critically A. G. Frank’s theory of ‘development of underdevelopment’.
- UPSC 2023
- Social Change in Modern Society
Andre Gunder Frank, in Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America (1967), inverted modernisation theory's founding assumption. Poor countries are not undeveloped, waiting at an original starting point; they are underdeveloped — a condition actively produced by the very process that developed the West. Development and underdevelopment, in his phrase, are "opposite faces of the same…
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- The thesis: underdevelopment as an outcome, not a stage
- The mechanism: the metropolis–satellite chain
- Its strength: the Indian evidence
- The critique
- Conclusion
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