Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Comment on the critics’ charge that Immanuel Wallerstein’s dependency theory is simplistic and wrong.
- UPSC 2009
- Social Change in Modern Society
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis (The Modern World-System, 1974) holds that a single capitalist world-economy distributes prosperity and poverty through a core–periphery–semi-periphery division of labour. Critics allege two faults: that the model is simplistic, reducing a complex world to three boxes, and wrong, since states have demonstrably changed position. The charge is partly earned, but aimed…
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