1st Edition
Rethinking Development Essays on Development and Southeast Asia
By Peter Preston
Copyright 1987
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the ‘classical tradition’ of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim.
Preston discusses the position of development studies in relation to the... Read more
1. Rethinking Development 2. The Discovery of the Rationalist Tradition 3. Boeke and Furnivall’s ‘Southeast Asia Sociology’ 4. Arguing on Behalf of Scholarship: Barrington Moore 5. Arguing on Behalf of ‘the planners: Chen, Fisk and Higgins 6. A. G. Frank: the Mode of Engagement of the ‘political writer’ 7. Analysing Dependent Capitalist Development: the Asian NICs 8. Constructing Nation-States in Southeast Asia
Biography
Peter Preston
