ABSTRACT

Development is seen as a controversial process which occurs between economic progress and cultural life, the latter being threatened by the former. J. Schmid sees development as a movement of a cultural whole and not with exclusively economic eyes. To formulate a sustainable development policy for the future, the anomic potential of development programmes and the social reality of the states in which they are to be introduced must be considered both systematically and historically. Central to J. Schmid’s considerations is the question of how to measure the success or failure of development programmes. The contributions by Schmid and J. Galtung show very clearly the interrelatedness of the concept of anomie with the concept of development. They analyse anomie as a hidden structure and a latent condition of development.