Format:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415602167
,
9780203835357
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Development Series
Content:
The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. They provide preliminary analysis of the multiplicity of social-theoretic arguments in development theory and their implications for social theory in general
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Some notes on the significance of the career of development studies -- 2. The specificity of social-theoretic engagement: some lessons for 'neo-marxian' studies of development -- 3. Becoming industrialized, being industrial: a brief analysis of a particular planning mode of engagement -- 4. The impact of the 'received model' of natural science upon social theorizing -- 5. Comparative ranking: some approaches to the task of rationally adjudicating between competing ideologies -- 6. The ethico-political notion of development: a memorandum on commitments -- 7. The common sense of development studies: elements of reconsideration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Preston, Peter New Trends in Development Theory Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415602167
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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