Development and Social Change

Development and Social Change

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  • Author: Philip McMichael
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1506334067
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 478

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. In this new Sixth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael describes a world undergoing profound social, political, and economic transformations, from the post-World War II era through the present. He tells a story of development in four parts—colonialism, developmentalism, globalization, and sustainability—that shows how the global development "project" has taken different forms from one historical period to the next. Throughout the text, the underlying conceptual framework is that development is a political construct, created by dominant actors (states, multilateral institutions, corporations and economic coalitions) and based on unequal power arrangements. While rooted in ideas about progress and prosperity, development also produces crises that threaten the health and well-being of millions of people, and sparks organized resistance to its goals and policies. Frequent case studies make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective challenges us to see ourselves as global citizens even as we are global consumers. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward


Development and Social Change

Development and Social Change

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  • Author: Philip McMichael
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9780761986676
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 408

The Second Edition of this popular textbook has been conceptually reworked to take account of the instabilities underlying the project of global development. While the conceptual framework of viewing development as shifting from a national, to a global, project remains, new issues such as the active engagement in the development project by Third World elites and peoples are considered. The first four chapters cover the rise and fall of the "development project" around the world. The next three cover the period of globalization, from the mid 1980s onwards. The final two chapters rethink globalization and development for the 21st century. Throughout, extensive use is made of case studies.


Development and Social Change

Development and Social Change

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  • Author: Philip McMichael
  • Publisher: Pine Forge Press
  • ISBN: 1412955920
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 377

Fourth edition of this international bestseller. Adopted by sociology, politics, development and also geography departments.


Social Change and Development

Social Change and Development

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  • Author: Alvin Y. So
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9780803935471
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

During the past four decades, the field of development has been dominated by three schools of research. The 1950s saw the modernization school, the 1960s experienced the dependency school, the 1970s developed the new world-system school, and the 1980s is a convergence of all three schools. Alvin Y. So examines the dynamic nature of these schools of development--what each of them represents, their contributions, how they have criticized each other, how they have defended themselves, and how they were transformed. He reviews a variety of empirical studies, focusing on the "classical" and the "new" models, to show how each of the perspectives affects the study of development. In addition, this book features a unique emphasis on the research implications of the three perspectives, involving changes in orientation, agenda, methodology, and findings.


Community Development for Social Change

Community Development for Social Change

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  • Author: Dave Beck
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315528592
  • Category : Architecture
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 473

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice. A range of practice models are described and analysed, including UK models, popular education and community organising, as well as a range of practice issues that need to be understood by community development workers. For example, strategies to promote individual and community empowerment, challenging discrimination, building and sustaining groups, and critical reflection on practice. Finally, a range of case studies from the UK and overseas illustrates good practice in diverse contexts. These case studies are analysed with reference to the values of community development, the promotion of social justice and the underpinning theories. It is an essential text for those on community development courses as well as for a range of workers, including local government, national and local voluntary agencies, and community-based organisations.


Individual Development and Social Change

Individual Development and Social Change

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  • Author: John R. Nesselroade
  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • ISBN: 1483274829
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis represents a convergence of three lines of emphasis now visible in developmental research and theory building. The three are (1) the life course as a focus for the study of development and social change, and their interrelationships; (2) the life-span orientation to the study of individual development, with its acknowledgment of the salience of contextual features for understanding development; and (3) the growth of methodological innovations that provide more appropriate and powerful ways of exploiting data gathered to describe and explain developmental change processes. The book opens with a study on how major cultural change originates and unfolds over time. This is followed by separate chapters on the use of sequential designs for explanatory analyses; evolutionary aspects of social and individual development; the concepts of the theory of causal and weak causal regressive dependence; and the concepts of age, period, and cohort from the perspective of developmental psychology. Subsequent chapters examine development and aging as lifelong processes of historical populations; the methodological integration of natural and cultural science perspectives in developmental psychology; and application of the multifaceted methodology to the mutuality of constraint between sociocultural group and individual dynamics.


The Pursuit of Development

The Pursuit of Development

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  • Author: Ian Goldin
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0198778031
  • Category : Developing countries
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

CHAPTER 8: THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT -- Index


Handbook on Development and Social Change

Handbook on Development and Social Change

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  • Author: G. Honor Fagan
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • ISBN: 1786431556
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 488

This Handbook provides an accessible critical review of the complex issues surrounding development and social change today. With chapters from recognized experts, examining economic, political and social aspects, and covering key topics and developing regions, it goes beyond current theory and sets out the debates which will shape an approach better suited to the modern world.


Social Change and Human Development

Social Change and Human Development

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  • Author: Rainer K Silbereisen
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 0857029363
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Today′s world is characterized by a set of overarching trends that often come under the rubric of social change. In this innovative volume, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen bring together, for the first time, international experts in the field to examine how changes in our social world impact on our individual development. Divided into four parts, the book explores the major socio-political and technological changes that have taken place around the world - from post- from the rapid upheavals in 1990s Europe to the gradual changes in parts of East Asia - and explains how these developments interplay with human development across the lifespan. Human Development and Social Change is a useful resource for students and researchers involved in all areas of human development, including developmental psychology, sociology and education.


Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change

Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change

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  • Author: Marcela Vásquez-Léon
  • Publisher: University of Arizona Press
  • ISBN: 0816534748
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

"Provides a cross-country comparison of smallholder agricultural cooperatives in Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia, revealing immense opportunities and challenges for community development, empowerment, and social change"--Provided by publisher.