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Beyond the Sociology of Development Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa

310 Pages

by Routledge

310 Pages

by Routledge

320 Pages

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Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate study of developing societies should take. Much of the book reflects strongly the influence of... Read more

1. Editor’s Introduction: Beyond the Sociology of Development 2. A Critique of Latin American Theories of Dependency 3. The Dependency Economist as Grassroots Politician in the Caribbean 4. Andre Gunder Frank: An Introduction and Appreciation 5. Imbalance Between the Centre and Periphery and the ‘Employment Crisis’ in Kenya 6. African Peasants and Resistance to Change: A Reconsideration of Sociological Approaches 7. Rice, Politics and Development in Guyana 8. Rural Social Differentiation and Political Goals in Tanzania 9. The Gezira Scheme: Production of Cotton and the Reproduction of Underdevelopment 10. Economic Anthropology and the Sociology of Underdevelopment: ‘Liberal’ Anthropology and its French Critics 11. The Theory of Internal Colonialism: The South African Case 12. Structural Dependency, Modes of Production and Economic Brokerage in Rural Peru