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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462539903321

Autore

Preston P. W (Peter Wallace), <1949-, >

Titolo

Rethinking development : essays on development and Southeast Asia / / P.W. Preston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-53882-2

9786613851277

1-136-85581-5

0-203-83534-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: development ; ; 109

Disciplina

330.959053

338.959

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Southeast Asia History

Southeast Asia Economic policy

Southeast Asia Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1987 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT Essays on Development and Southeast Asia; Copyright; Rethinking development: essays on development and Southeast Asia; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Rethinking development; 2 The rediscovery of the rationalist tradition; 3 Boeke and Furnivall's 'Southeast Asian sociology'; 4 Arguing on behalf of scholarship: Barrington Moore; 5 Arguing on behalf of 'the planners': Chen, Fisk and Higgins; 6 A. G. Frank: the mode of engagement of the 'political writer'; 7 Analysing dependent capitalist development: the Asian NICs

8 Constructing nation-states in Southeast AsiaNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the 'classical tradition' of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim.Preston discusses the



position of development studies in relation to the wider group of the social sciences in general and to sociology in particular. Using examples mainly from the study of Southeast Asia, he looks at the diversity of available 'modes of social