Sociology of Development
Published on 5. July 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
137 pages
978-0-582-35563-7 (ISBN)
Description
Taken from a series of short topic books designed to cover the requirements of A level sociology syllabuses, this book looks at development. It includes a selection of reading and documentary extracts, including statistical and quantitative data where relevant.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
4 illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
148 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-35563-7 (9780582355637)
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Content
Part 1 Developmentalist/modernization theory: development - themes and issues; development as evolution - the organic view of society; organic evolutionary theories of development - functionalism; developmentalist theory - modernisation. Part 2 Dependency theory: development as dependency; colonialism - imperialism and neocolonialism; development as exploitation - the development of underdevelopment. Part 3 Development strategies. Part 4: aspects of development; statistics and documentary readings.