The Sociology of Development

Author: Robert G. Cushing, Charles H. Wood and Bryan R. Roberts Series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Sociology series

Contemporary scholarship on economic development is explored in the second volume which addresses today's major research issues: class, gender, ethnic and race inequality, the informal economy, population growth, migration, worker remittances, politics and the state, planning and development, and the state and sustainable development.

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This two-volume set contains a selection of the most important articles and papers on the subject of the sociology of development over a 30-year period. It is divided into 14 headings covering the main areas in the field, including antecedents, modernization, the global economy and ethnicity. The 48 articles are dated from 1932 to 1993, and contributors include R.P. Appelbaum, W. Beckerman, A.O. Hirschmann, S.P. Huntington, A. Portes, P. Streeten, L. Trotsky and I. Wallerstein.

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Edited by Bryan R. Roberts, Population Research Centre, University of Texas, US, Robert G. Cushing, Deputy Director of the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin and Charles H. Wood, Population Research Centre, University of Texas, Austin, US