Development sociology : actor perspectives / Norman Long.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Theoretical and methodological issues. 1. An actor-oriented sociology of development. 2. Demythologising planned intervention. 3. Building a conceptual and interpretative framework. 4. Encounters at the interface: social and cultural discontinuities in development and change -- Pt. II. Commoditisation, social values and small-scale enterprise. 5. Commoditization and issues of social value. 6. Webs of commitment and debt: the significance of money and social currencies in commodity networks. 7. Networks, social capital and multiple family enterprise: local to global -- Pt. III. Knowledge interfaces, power and globalisation. 8. Knowledge, networks and power. 9. The dynamics of knowledge interfaces between bureaucrats and peasants. 10. Globalization and localization: recontextualising social change.