<Li> The Drive to Maturity </Li> <Li> The Age of High Mass Consumption </Li> <P> These stages present a linear trajectory of development in a which the traditional society, exhibiting feudal and "backward" characteristics, can transform into a modern society with advanced industries and urban societies . By placing national growth on a linear path to modernization and hails industrialization as the key to development, Rostow's model simplifies complex inequality between nations by claiming that (since various nations began the process of development at different time periods) different societies are simply at different stages of growth . Rostow's model makes the assumption that the inequality between states will eventually disappear once each progresses on the timeline of modernity--sped up, he argued, through contact with modernized cultures and their modern economic and political models . </P> <P> Dependency theory reflects the body of mid-20th century theories by various intellectuals, both from the Third World and the First World, that suggest that the wealthy nations of the world need a subjugated peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy . Dependency theory states that the poverty of the countries in the periphery is not because they are not integrated into the world system, but because of how they are integrated into the system . </P>

Categorize and explain the factors that led to less industrial growth in the south than in the north