ABSTRACT
As development in the last 50 years has largely been seen as economic development, it is unremarkable that social aspects have received relatively little attention. Social change has been analyzed by sociologists in a discourse separate from that of development. Social elements in development have been treated as a policy matter, covered generally by welfare. This lays immediate emphasis on consumption of social goods and services. In other words, society has been regarded as the consumer, the recipient of development, and not as the producer. In the following discussion, we examine first the place of social components in development, and then review developed countries and less developed countries for relevant materials.
