Answer to Question 1
Core societies are rich, powerful nations that are economically diversified and relatively free of outside control. Peripheral societies are poor and weak with highly specialized economies over which they have relatively little control. In world-systems theory, the core societies are said to profit from the exploitation of the peripheral ones.
Answer to Question 2
Modernization theory sees development as the natural unfolding of an evolutionary process in which societies go from simple to complex institutional structures and from primary to secondary and tertiary production.
Cyanobacteria of the (a) genus Synechococcus form (b) mats that line hot springs around the world.
Peripheral nervous system PNS Diagram
The central and peripheral nervous system
The evolution of societies has been so thorough that this scene—once common for all humanity—has ...
Paleogene world
Body sites where the peripheral pulse is most easily palpated