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McMichael, Development and Social Change 5e – Instructor Materials
Development and Social Change Test Bank
What follows are examples of questions for instructors to pose to students to help them make
the connections necessary to following the text, and its interpretation of the world of
development. Five questions for each chapter will focus on the chapter’s content, cumulative
understanding across chapters and how specific cases illuminate general, or global, trends
Chapter 1. Development: Theory and Reality
1. What are some of the questions being raised about ‘development’ today? Why?
2. In what ways are problems of climate change embedded in our development model and
its inter-national relationships?
3. How does the concept of the ‘commodity chain’ help us to think about the relationships
that underlie development?
4. How can we compare the value of fast food with that of the rainforest?
5. How do dependency and world systems analysis conceptions of development differ from
Rostow’s theory of development (stages of growth)? How do they illuminate the
difference between understanding development in sequential and relational terms?
6. How can development be understood by its social and ecological paradoxes? How do
measurements of development perpetuate these paradoxes?
7. What is the double movement and how is it expressed in the transitions between the
development, globalization, and sustainability projects?
