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WorksheetsRostow's Model
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 7mins
Depends upon primary sector activities, such as farming, fishing, and hunting, for subsistence.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Uses limited technology.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Carries out local or regional trading only.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Limited socio-economic mobility, growth. No climbing of socio-economic classes.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Starts to develop and improve infrastructure (roads, electrical grid, water systems, etc.)
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Starts to improve farming techniques and shift more towards commercial agriculture.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Begins to participate in international trade, such as the exporting of agriculture and raw materials.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Use of technology starts to become more common and widespread.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Starts individual socio-economic mobility and growth. Starts to become possible to climb socio-economic classes.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Major technological advancements leads to rapid growth in the textile and food industries.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
The primary sector begins to shrink and the secondary sectors begins to grow.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Spreads entrepreneurial mentality. People begin to start and run their own businesses and industries.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Rapid urbanization takes place.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Creates new industries while strengthening the existing ones.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Continuous improvements in advanced energy, transportation, and communication systems.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Economic growth becomes greater than population growth.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Investments in social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, etc.)
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Spends money on non-essential goods (consumerism).
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Purchases of high order goods become more and more common.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Desires to create an egalitarian (belief that people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities) society.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
Supports strong tertiary, quaternary, and quinary sectors.
Stage 1: Traditional Society
Stage 2: Pre-Condition for Take-Off
Stage 3: Take-Off
Stage 4: Drive to Maturity
Stage 5: High Mass Consumption
