The Sociology and Politics of Development
Title | The Sociology and Politics of Development PDF eBook |
Author | Baidya Nath Varma |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2010-11-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 113685567X |
Originally published in 1980, this work answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. Professor Varma begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He examines carefully some of the models that have been used for this purpose in the past, providing extensive summaries of the views on modernization of theorists in various social science disciplines, including sociology, politics, economics, and anthropology, and stresses the importance of these views in guiding policy decisions. The book concludes with a comparison of the development processes of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and India.
The Sociology and Politics of Development
Title | The Sociology and Politics of Development PDF eBook |
Author | Baidya Nath Varma |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-11-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136855661 |
Originally published in 1980, this work answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. Professor Varma begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He examines carefully some of the models that have been used for this purpose in the past, providing extensive summaries of the views on modernization of theorists in various social science disciplines, including sociology, politics, economics, and anthropology, and stresses the importance of these views in guiding policy decisions. The book concludes with a comparison of the development processes of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and India.
The sociology and politics of development
Title | The sociology and politics of development PDF eBook |
Author | Baidya Nath Varma |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Politics and Development
Title | Politics and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Olle Törnquist |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1999-02-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780761959342 |
This major textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of third world politics and development. The author outlines the difficulties in the various analytical approaches to the study of development within political science; presents a critical overview of each of the main schools of thought and explores the contemporary issue of democratization to illustrate how students can apply a framework for research and critically develop a perspective on their own.
Development, Politics, and Social Theory
Title | Development, Politics, and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Iqbal Narain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN |
The Sociology of Development Handbook
Title | The Sociology of Development Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Hooks |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 723 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520963474 |
The Sociology of Development Handbook gathers essays that reflect the range of debates in development sociology and in the interdisciplinary study and practice of development. The essays address the pressing intellectual challenges of today, including internal and international migration, transformation of political regimes, globalization, changes in household and family formations, gender dynamics, technological change, population and economic growth, environmental sustainability, peace and war, and the production and reproduction of social and economic inequality.
Culture and Politics in Economic Development
Title | Culture and Politics in Economic Development PDF eBook |
Author | Volker Bornschier |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2005-02-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134326106 |
In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries. The book is a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on social capital, trust and democracy and will be of interest to those in the fields of economics, sociology, politics and development studies.