dependency principle

(noun)

The notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of the dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones are enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system. "

Related Terms

Examples of dependency principle in the following topics:

  • Colonialism, Decolonization, and Neo-Colonialism

    • That most African nations accept the offers and their conditions is an example of the dependency principle.
    • Colonized territories were forced to depend on colonizers for trade.
    • This function operates because of the dependency principle.
    • The combination of the degree of the influence and the dependency principle creates a situation that in many ways mirrors colonialism.
    • This, again, invokes the dependency principle and mirrors colonialism.

  • Democracy

    • Although no country has ever granted all its citizens (i.e. including minors) the vote, most countries today hold regular elections based on egalitarian principles, at least in theory.
    • These principles are reflected in all citizens being equal before the law and having equal access to legislative processes.
    • According to some theories of democracy, popular sovereignty is the founding principle of such a system.
    • However, the democratic principle has also been expressed as "the freedom to call something into being which did not exist before, which was not given … and which therefore, strictly speaking, could not be known. " This type of freedom, which is connected to human natality, or the capacity to begin anew, sees democracy as "not only a political system… [but] an ideal, an aspiration, really, intimately connected to and dependent upon a picture of what it is to be human—of what it is a human should be to be fully human. "
    • Though the term "democracy" is typically used in the context of a political state, the principles are applicable to private organizations and other groups as well.

  • Models of Urban Growth

    • Urban sprawl entails the growth of a city into low-density and auto-dependent rural land, high segregation of land use (e.g., retail sections placed far from residential areas, often in large shopping malls or retail complexes), and design features that encourage car dependency.
    • Urban sprawl is also associated with negative environmental and public health effects, many of which are related to automobile dependence: increases in personal transportation costs, air pollution and reliance on fossil fuel, increases in traffic accidents, delays in emergency medical services response times, and decreases in land and water quantity and quality.
    • As an approach to urban planning, it encompasses principles such as traditional neighborhood design and transit-oriented development.
    • A neighborhood designed along New Urbanist principles would have a discernible center (such as a square or a green) with a transit stop nearby.

  • The Future of Religion

    • What's more, depending on the venue of the discussion, these elements of Christianity may not be recognized by other 'Christian' groups as elements of their version of Christianity.
    • Fundamentalism describes a movement to return to what is considered the defining or founding principles of a religion.
    • It has especially come to refer to any religious enclave that intentionally resists identification with the larger religious group in which it originally arose, on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become corrupt or displaced by alternative principles hostile to its identity.

  • Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

    • Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual person's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.
    • Depending on your cultural background, this may or may not look delicious.

  • The Marxist Critique of Capitalism

    • Criticisms range from people who disagree with the principles of capitalism in its entirety, to those who disagree with particular outcomes of capitalism.
    • Private ownership over the means of production and distribution is seen as creating a dependence of non-owning classes on the ruling class, and ultimately as a source of restriction of human freedom.

  • Characteristics of the State

    • States may be classified as sovereign if they are not dependent on, or subject to, any other power or state.
    • The rule of law is a legal maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles.

  • Introduction

    • That is, we want to be able to state principles that hold for all groups, all organizations, all societies, etc.
    • That is, the definition of a category, or a "social role" or "social position" depends upon its relationship to another category.
    • Note that the meaning of "worker" depends upon a capitalist -- and vice versa.

  • Power and Inequality

    • Theories of social stratification are based on four basic principles:
    • People's life experiences and opportunities depend on their social category.

  • Migration

    • Following neoclassical principles, migrants tend to move from low-wage areas to high-wage areas where their labor is in higher demand.
    • It can be argued that even after decolonization, the economic dependence of former colonies still remains.