Malaysia’s rapid economic growth. After the independence in August 1957, the economy shifted from agriculture to industrialisation; an import-substitution strategy was adopted to reduce dependency on primary sector and simultaneously diversify the economy. By the late 1960s, with the exhaustion of import substitution, the Malaysian government made the transition to exportoriented industrialisation. The May 1969 election and ensuing race riots resulted in the increased state
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Ecologism: Core themes | Ecology | * Ecology developed as a distinct branch of biology through a growing recognition that plants and animals are sustained by self-regulating natural systems (i.e. ecosystem) composed of both living and non-living elements. All ecosystems tend towards a state of harmony or equilibrium through a system of state regulation. Biologists refer to this as homeostasis: Process where food and other resources are recycled and the population size of animals; insects and
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capitalism from the early sixteenth century. This inclusion evolved through mercantilism (1500-1850s) driven by Portuguese and the Dutch, colonialism driven by the British (a850s-1930s and 1945-1957) and the Japanese (1941-1945), post-colonial industrialisation (1960s) and ethnonationalist economic development (1971-present). A productive market economy was built during British colonialism with the establishment of capitalist plantation and mining export industries, based on immigrant Indian and Chinese
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roles. However joint roles is where partners share their roles so there is few divisions in the family making the household more symmetrical. Domestic division of labour has changed over time as it started with agriculture (pre industrialisation) then industrialisation which was the development of nuclear families and finally post-modern society. Functionalist sociologist parsons argues that the nuclear family roles are segregated. He believed that division of labour is based of biological differences
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The rollercoaster through time had its bumps but overall the economy, social status, and political views were influenced the most. The Industrial Revolution not only brought economic changes to the north and south but it greatly influenced the social and political standings of the two regions. The North and South had lots of differing components. The South was flourishing through agricultural and the North was based on industrialization. The political parties of the north and south were facing struggles
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an organisations actions. Industrialisation and Urbanisation have resulted in a profound deterioration of India’s air quality with the highest number of air pollution deaths coming from India. Water pollution is also another major concern in India with most of their waters being contaminated with sewage and chemical wastes. Limited water treatment facilities means that people bath in and drink this water which carries extremely high health risks. Industrialisation and Urbanisation have resulted
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children and adults. There was no real significant difference between clothing and how it was different between adults and children however it changed in the 17th century between different social classes. The distinction became more prone when industrialisation took place in the 18th and 19th century. With this factor taking slow
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Functionalism and Marxism can be described as 'modernist' theories in that they explain the workings of 'modern society'. Modern society first emerged in Western Europe from about the late 18th century following the industrial revolution and the mass industrialisation of the western world. Modern can be distinguished from previous traditional societies in a number of ways. Firstly, the nation-state is the key political unit in modern society, we tend to think of the modern world as made up of a series of separate
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Stalin during the early 1930s to push through the Five Year Plans, many kulaks were either killed or sent to labour camps if they refused to hand over their grain. Furthermore, a lot of workers and engineers were accused of sabotage during rapid industrialisation in the Five Year Plans and a series of show trials were put on, e.g. The Shakhty trials of 1928. However, unlike Stalin, Lenin and other Communists had stressed the importance of having a distinction of the methods used to deal with opposition
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Skip to content HOME BLOG A2 GEOGRAPHY Discuss the roles and relative importance of NICs and TNCs in a changing global economy. Discuss the roles and relative importance of NICs and TNCs in a changing global economy. An economy is the activities related to the production of goods and services within a specified geographic region. This can exist on a national scale, the trade and services within a country, but equally, if countries trade goods and services with each other, their economies
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