ABSTRACT
The claim to generality of the theories of development (and more generally speaking of social change) would only be a problem if their political translation-which is generally also a betrayal-was not sometimes responsible for the new ‘pyramids of sacrifice’ as described by Berger. For some theorists of development, development involves a modification of individual’s attitudes and values. It is likely, as Weber maintained and as did, later, McClelland, Hagen, and Parsons (cf. ‘Socialization’), that some value systems are more favourable to development than others. This was also the belief of the Red Guards during the Chinese cultural revolution.
