Social Sciences and History / Unit 11 SSH 1039 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rostow's Stages and Their Critics
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The idea
Walter Rostow, an American government official, proposed the Stages of Growth in nineteen sixty: countries follow a similar, predictable path through five stages, traditional society, transitional, take-off, drive to maturity, and high mass consumption. The anchor's glossary calls the stages deterministic. Modernization theory makes the same claim.
In practice
Human agency, the anchor's counterweight to models.
Where people slip
The Asian Tigers: exports, education, high savings.
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