AP HuG Social and Economic Development Vocab and Concepts

economic dependence on exports of agricultural and mineral raw materials

• commodity dependency

• commodes

• dependency ratio

• modernization

Capitalist, developed, industrialized countries

• periphery

• core

• semi-periphery

• industrialization

Theory using a 3 tier structure, proposing that social change in the developing world is inextricably linked to the economic activities in the developed world (Wallerstein)

• Modernization Model

• World Systems Theory

• Organic Theory

• Rimland Theory

model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich nations

• World Systems Theory

• Modernization Model

• Organic Theory

• Dependency Theory

countries with median standards of living, these are newly industrialized

• Core

• Periphery

• Semi-Periphery

• Developed

Sustainability is the ability to

• develop countries into core countries

• measure gender inequality within and between countries

• transition to a new manufacturing process that includes mass production which started in the late 18th century

• meet humanities current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs

service of providing medical care

• sanitation

• healthcare

• literacy

• education

Economic development model that maintains that all countries go through 5 stages of development

• Dependency Model

• World Systems Model

• Modernization Model

• Human Development Model

Less developed countries are in __________ stages of development

• end

• beginning

• core

• 3-4

Countries that have favorable social and economic factors are

• less developed

• more developed

• industrializing

• periphery