ABSTRACT
First published in 1995. Since its establishment as a separate discipline within the social sciences in the post-war world, development sociology has undergone a number of theoretical transformations, each of which attempted to overcome the inadequacies of the previous paradigm and a matter of academic debate, but many writers agree that the discipline has reached something of an impasse. This book is concerned with explaining the reasons for the impasse and suggesting ways of moving beyond it. Its focus is on Marxist and related theories of development and underdevelopment since these have dominated the field for the past 20 or so years.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|8 pages
Introduction: The impasse summarized
part Part I|73 pages
The theoretical impasse
chapter 2|24 pages
Marx and development
chapter 3|25 pages
Modernization, dependency and development
chapter 4|21 pages
Structuralist Marxism and development
part Part II|87 pages
The impasse and the contemporary global political economy