ABSTRACT
Development may be seen as an inner process which mediates between economic progress and cultural life and, because it has to retain some extent of durability and continuity, is therefore threatened by anomie. The term “development decades” is used by the UN to mark the endeavours of world organisation to fulfil developmental goals. The dissonance between development and impending forms of anomie generates a tension between the cultural norms and the social structure. Anomie turns out to be a “danger for cultural development” when it becomes a destructive force in its own right and able to annihilate the steps of process. The quality of policy and governance offers the most controversial concepts in regard to how their developmental outcome should be evaluated. Progress in demographic transition, gradual economic success and political stability apparently rest upon a cultural base advantageous to pass through the stages of development.
