{"product_id":"development-theory-9780631195559","title":"Development Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this invaluable introduction to the major post-Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his focus the strategies used to analyze change in the Third World and examines the ways in which different conceptions of the nature of change have led to different lines of policy advice. In doing so, the author demonstrates how the various contemporary approaches to development draw upon strategies of enquiry which are lodged deep within the intellectual traditions of the modern world. The author''s approach is based on the premise that the reader can only fully grasp the live issues and debates surrounding development through an understanding of the linkages with the broader frameworks of social theory.  \u003cp\u003eThe volume is organized into four major sections:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn introduction to the nature of social scientific analysis;\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA review of the work of the major social scientific figures of the nineteenth century and their imp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author's approach is scholarly and informative, and his book deserves a place in the teaching resources of most departments ...\" \u003ci\u003eDavid Drakakis-Smith, University of Liverpool\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"A readable, illuminating account ...\" \u003ci\u003eJan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures. \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Acronyms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Nature of Social Theorising:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Arguments and Actions in Social Theorising.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Classical Social Theory:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Rise of a Social Science of Humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Adam Smith and the Spontaneous Order of the Marketplace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Karl Marx and the Dialectics of Historical Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Emile Durkheim and the Evolution of the Division of Labour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Transitional Work of Max Weber.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Divisions of Intellectual Labour of the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Contemporary Theories of Development:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Legacies of the Colonial Era: Structures, Institutions and Images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Decolonization, Cold War and the Construction of Modernization Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Development Experience of Latin America: Structuralism and Dependency Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Pursuit of Effective Nationstatehood: The Work of the Institutionalist Development Theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Critical Work of Marxist Development Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Assertion of Third World Solidarity: Global Development Approaches.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Affirmation of the Role of the Market: Metropolitan Neo Liberalism in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: New Analyses of Complex Change:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Global System Interdependence: The New Structural Analyses of the Dynamics of Industrial-Capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Agent Centered Analyses and the Acknowledgment of the Diversity of Forms-of-life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. The Formal Character of a New General Approach to Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. A New Substantive Focus: From Theorising the Development of the Third World to Elucidating the Dynamics of Complex Change in the Tripolar Global Industrial-Capitalist system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403404222807,"sku":"9780631195559","price":43.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631195559.jpg?v=1730483366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/development-theory-9780631195559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}