An analytical and historical survey of theories of development in the period 1945-1975
This study concerns itself with pursuing the remarks made by Hilal (~Sociology and Underdevelopment~, Durham mimeo 1970 ppl-3) to the effect that the 'discovery' of the Third World was (is) as significant for present day social-theorizing as was that l9th century discovery of industrializzation made by the 'founding fathers' of sociology and the classical political economists. The elucidation of this claim has been effected by the preparation of a critical history of the career of 'development studies' in the post war period, 1945-75. Three schools' have been identified, labelled 'positivist'. 'radicals' and 'marxists', by asking how the linked matters 'Of disciplinary independence and theoretical autonomy have been regarded by the practitioners themselves. Briefly, it is argued that: (l) the earliest efforts regarded development as a technical matter of the appropriate application of the eetablished procedures of economics , where economics was taken as a 'positive science'; (2) the efforts characteristic of the middle period adopted varieties of 'sociologized' economics and lodged claims for the independence and theoretical novelty of 'development-studies'; (3) the marxists, the most recent identifiable
Preston, Peter Wallis
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An analytical and historical survey of theories of development in the period 1945-1975. This study concerns itself with pursuing the remarks made by Hilal (~Sociology and Underdevelopment~, Durham mimeo 1970 ppl-3) to the effect that the 'discovery' of the Third World was (is) as significant for present day social-theorizing as was that l9th century discovery of industrializzation made by the 'founding fathers' of sociology and the classical political economists. The elucidation of this claim has been effected by the preparation of a critical history of the career of 'development studies' in the post war period, 1945-75. Three schools' have been identified, labelled 'positivist'. 'radicals' and 'marxists', by asking how the linked matters 'Of disciplinary independence and theoretical autonomy have been regarded by the practitioners themselves. Briefly, it is argued that: (l) the earliest efforts regarded development as a technical matter of the appropriate application of the eetablished procedures of economics , where economics was taken as a 'positive science'; (2) the efforts characteristic of the middle period adopted varieties of 'sociologized' economics and lodged claims for the independence and theoretical novelty of 'development-studies'; (3) the marxists, the most recent identifiable
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