
Paradigms of Social Change: Modernisation, Development, Transformation, Evolution
Campus (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2001
Book
Hardback
322 pages
978-3-593-36533-6 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-593-36533-6 (9783593365336)
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Content
Preface
Waltraud Schelkle and Wolf-Hagen Krauth
Introduction: Paradigms lost and found
Modernization
Johannes Berger
Modernization Theory and Economic Growth
Göran Therborn
"Modernization" Discourses, their Limitations, and their Alternatives
Hans Joas
Comment on Göran Therborn
Andreas Wimmer
Modernization as Transformation
Summary: Modernization
Transformation
Charles Tilly
Struggle, Democratization, and Political Transformation
János Kornai
The System Paradigm
Andreas Ryll
Reflections on János Kornai's Notion of a "System Paradigm"
Helmut Wiesenthal
A Paradigm Destroyed. On the Opportunity of Revising Theories of Institutional Transformation
Summary: Transformation
Development
T.N. Srinivasan
Evolution of Development Theory and Strategy: Changing Perceptions of the Role of the Market, State and Foreign Trade
Ulrich Menzel
States Against Markets: Comments on T.N. Srinivasan
Waltraud Schelkle
The Development Paradigm in Economics: Comment on T.N. Srinivasan
Charles Gore
The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries
Summary:Development
Evolution
Peter .J Richerson and Richard Boyd
Evolution; The Darwinian Theory of Social Change
Max Miller
Why Darwinism Fails in Explaining Social and Cultural Evolution - Comments on Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
Andre Kieserling
Theories of Social Change - A Remark on the Status of Evolutionary Theories
Uwe Cantner
The Evolutionary Paradigm in the Social Sciences - All Economist's Point of View
W. G. Runciman
More than a Metaphor: the neo-Darwinian Paradigm for the Explanation of Social Change
Summary:Evolution
Authors
Waltraud Schelkle and Wolf-Hagen Krauth
Introduction: Paradigms lost and found
Modernization
Johannes Berger
Modernization Theory and Economic Growth
Göran Therborn
"Modernization" Discourses, their Limitations, and their Alternatives
Hans Joas
Comment on Göran Therborn
Andreas Wimmer
Modernization as Transformation
Summary: Modernization
Transformation
Charles Tilly
Struggle, Democratization, and Political Transformation
János Kornai
The System Paradigm
Andreas Ryll
Reflections on János Kornai's Notion of a "System Paradigm"
Helmut Wiesenthal
A Paradigm Destroyed. On the Opportunity of Revising Theories of Institutional Transformation
Summary: Transformation
Development
T.N. Srinivasan
Evolution of Development Theory and Strategy: Changing Perceptions of the Role of the Market, State and Foreign Trade
Ulrich Menzel
States Against Markets: Comments on T.N. Srinivasan
Waltraud Schelkle
The Development Paradigm in Economics: Comment on T.N. Srinivasan
Charles Gore
The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries
Summary:Development
Evolution
Peter .J Richerson and Richard Boyd
Evolution; The Darwinian Theory of Social Change
Max Miller
Why Darwinism Fails in Explaining Social and Cultural Evolution - Comments on Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
Andre Kieserling
Theories of Social Change - A Remark on the Status of Evolutionary Theories
Uwe Cantner
The Evolutionary Paradigm in the Social Sciences - All Economist's Point of View
W. G. Runciman
More than a Metaphor: the neo-Darwinian Paradigm for the Explanation of Social Change
Summary:Evolution
Authors