Rethinking social development : theory, research, and practice /
Rethinking social development : theory, research, and practice /
edited by David Booth.
- xv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on the Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Rethinking social development: an overview -- Reconsidering the explanandum and scope of development studies: toward a comparative sociology of state-economy relations -- Heterogeneity, actor and structure: towards a reconstitution of the concept of structure -- Post-Marxism and post-colonialism: the needs and rights of distant strangers -- The state in late development: historical and comparative perspectives -- The social construction of rural development: discourses, practices and power -- Between economism and post-modernism: reflections on research on 'agrarian change' in India -- Theory and relevance in indigenous agriculture: knowledge, agency and organization -- On ignoring the wider picture: AIDS research and the jobbing social scientist -- Social development research and the third sector: NGOs as users and subjects of social inquiry -- Afterword -- Rethinking social development: the search for 'relevance' -- How far beyond the impasse? A provisional summing-up -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12.
0582234972 9780582234970
95115768
Social change.
Social planning.
HM101 / .R447 1994
303.44
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on the Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Rethinking social development: an overview -- Reconsidering the explanandum and scope of development studies: toward a comparative sociology of state-economy relations -- Heterogeneity, actor and structure: towards a reconstitution of the concept of structure -- Post-Marxism and post-colonialism: the needs and rights of distant strangers -- The state in late development: historical and comparative perspectives -- The social construction of rural development: discourses, practices and power -- Between economism and post-modernism: reflections on research on 'agrarian change' in India -- Theory and relevance in indigenous agriculture: knowledge, agency and organization -- On ignoring the wider picture: AIDS research and the jobbing social scientist -- Social development research and the third sector: NGOs as users and subjects of social inquiry -- Afterword -- Rethinking social development: the search for 'relevance' -- How far beyond the impasse? A provisional summing-up -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12.
0582234972 9780582234970
95115768
Social change.
Social planning.
HM101 / .R447 1994
303.44