TY - BOOK AU - Booth,David TI - Rethinking social development: theory, research, and practice SN - 0582234972 AV - HM101 .R447 1994 U1 - 303.44 PY - 1994/// CY - Harlow PB - Longman Scientific & Technical KW - Social change KW - Social planning N1 - 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 ER -