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