Benno Galjart
Biographic Data
| ID | 256010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benno Galjart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benno |
| FAMILY NAME | Galjart |
| SIGNATURE | GALJART B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sustainability as the maintenance of things: Analogies for an environmental sociology
Care for the natural environment consists of nothing else than maintenance activities with respect to a large number of material objects. The question is whether these activities can be compared with the maintenance of other things. Things are variously ‘embedded’ socially in terms of ownership and use and culturally in terms of value. Perhaps, because objects differ so much in their embeddedness and are so differently maintained, a sociology of …
Co-operation as Pooling: A Rational Choice Perspective
Pooling as a contemporary phenomenon
1. As a development sociologist, one is neither fully involved in the sociological tradition, nor a full-fledged anthropologist. Normally this is an uncomfortable position, like that of any m?tis, but it also enables one, from time to time, to suggest links. This paper is about three such suggestions. One is that pooling, or redistribution, is a contemporary form of exchange that is rather widespread in industrialized as well as developing societ…
Counterdevelopment: A Position Paper
Journal Article Counterdevelopment: A Position Paper Get access BENNO GALJART BENNO GALJART Benno Galjart is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Leiden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Community Development Journal, Volume 16, Issue 2, April 1981, Pages 88–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/16.2.88 Published: 01 April 1981
Participatory Development Projects Some Conclusions From Research: Some Conclusions From Research
Based on an analysis of cases culled from the literature and collected in the field, a model of small-scale participatory development projects is constructed. The article begins with an attempt to anchor participation within development theory. Then critera for what, on this basis, should be considered a successful project are spelled out. Selected problems, connected with the economic, the organizational and the educational aspects of participat…
Workshop J: Alternative Development Strategies
The Current Status of Rural Sociology
In the firm belief that rural sociology is currently in a state of malaise, this paper attempts to diagnose the sickness. Some of the main aspects of what is called 'conventional rural sociology' are outlined and their limitations discussed. It is argued strongly that rural sociology must become more theoretically-oriented in the problems it sets itself and that more attention be given to conceptual and theoretical issues. It is hoped that the pa…
Incentives, Levelling Mechanisms and Rural Development
Levelling mechanisms have been frequently found by anthropologists in rural communities. Such mechanisms had the function of helping to maintain the coherence of relatively small territorial social units by preventing the exploitation of one member or group by another and guaranteeing all full members access to common resources.Vestiges of such mechanisms may still be found in areas which have been opened up to national or international market fo…
Peasant Co-operation, Consciousness and Solidarity
Paper prepared for the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Amsterdam, 19–23 March 1975
The Future of Rural Sociology
THE FUTURE OF RURAL SOCIOLOGYRural sociology is stagnating because it has been focusing too uncritically on the adaptation of rural sub-systems to the main society and because it seems unable to relate its subject anew to the global society. An outline of a new, comprehensive, theoretical model is suggested, and in terms of this model the discipline is given new tasks. Emphasis is laid on the provision of feedback information, not in the first pl…
Rural Sociology in 1972: An Introduction
Itaguai: Old Habits and New Practices in a Brazilian Land Settlement
of the Nucleo Colonial de Santa Cruz.And of course by my informants, the settlers of the project, among whom Laerte stood out.Unlike a technician, a sociologist cannot achieve actual improvements.He talks more than he acts.One of the reasons why this book was written, however, was the hope that all this talk will allow some future action.In the Netherlands, I owe gratitude to those of my teachers and colleagues who discussed certain problems with…
Itaguai: Old habits and new practices in a Brazilian land settlement
The aims of the studyOriginally the intention of the investigation was simple: to find out what important pertinent differences could be distinguished between successful and unsuccessful settlers in a land-settlement area. For various reasons the Santa Cruz project near the city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen as site for the study. One part of this project (the Santa Cruz section ) had been settled in the 1930's, the other part (the section Piranem…
Old Patrons and New Some Notes on the Consequences of Patronage for Local Development Projects 1
Old Patrons and New In societies where patronage occurs it is found in all social strata; it does not disappear with the suppression of rural poverty. This article deals with the various ways in which patronage may manifest itself during and after the execution of local development projects. It is argued that the agency which executes the project will itself often be assigned the role of patron; that the disruption of traditional local power rela…
The Current Status of Rural Sociology
In the firm belief that rural sociology is currently in a state of malaise, this paper attempts to diagnose the sickness. Some of the main aspects of what is called 'conventional rural sociology' are outlined and their limitations discussed. It is argued strongly that rural sociology must become more theoretically-oriented in the problems it sets itself and that more attention be given to conceptual and theoretical issues. It is hoped that the pa…
Co-operation as Pooling: A Rational Choice Perspective
Participatory Development Projects Some Conclusions From Research: Some Conclusions From Research
Based on an analysis of cases culled from the literature and collected in the field, a model of small-scale participatory development projects is constructed. The article begins with an attempt to anchor participation within development theory. Then critera for what, on this basis, should be considered a successful project are spelled out. Selected problems, connected with the economic, the organizational and the educational aspects of participat…
Incentives, Levelling Mechanisms and Rural Development
Levelling mechanisms have been frequently found by anthropologists in rural communities. Such mechanisms had the function of helping to maintain the coherence of relatively small territorial social units by preventing the exploitation of one member or group by another and guaranteeing all full members access to common resources.Vestiges of such mechanisms may still be found in areas which have been opened up to national or international market fo…
Itaguai: Old habits and new practices in a Brazilian land settlement
The aims of the studyOriginally the intention of the investigation was simple: to find out what important pertinent differences could be distinguished between successful and unsuccessful settlers in a land-settlement area. For various reasons the Santa Cruz project near the city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen as site for the study. One part of this project (the Santa Cruz section ) had been settled in the 1930's, the other part (the section Piranem…
Old Patrons and New Some Notes on the Consequences of Patronage for Local Development Projects 1
Old Patrons and New In societies where patronage occurs it is found in all social strata; it does not disappear with the suppression of rural poverty. This article deals with the various ways in which patronage may manifest itself during and after the execution of local development projects. It is argued that the agency which executes the project will itself often be assigned the role of patron; that the disruption of traditional local power rela…
Itaguai: Old Habits and New Practices in a Brazilian Land Settlement
of the Nucleo Colonial de Santa Cruz.And of course by my informants, the settlers of the project, among whom Laerte stood out.Unlike a technician, a sociologist cannot achieve actual improvements.He talks more than he acts.One of the reasons why this book was written, however, was the hope that all this talk will allow some future action.In the Netherlands, I owe gratitude to those of my teachers and colleagues who discussed certain problems with…
Old Patrons and New Some Notes on the Consequences of Patronage for Local Development Projects 1
Old Patrons and New In societies where patronage occurs it is found in all social strata; it does not disappear with the suppression of rural poverty. This article deals with the various ways in which patronage may manifest itself during and after the execution of local development projects. It is argued that the agency which executes the project will itself often be assigned the role of patron; that the disruption of traditional local power rela…
Itaguai: Old habits and new practices in a Brazilian land settlement
The aims of the studyOriginally the intention of the investigation was simple: to find out what important pertinent differences could be distinguished between successful and unsuccessful settlers in a land-settlement area. For various reasons the Santa Cruz project near the city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen as site for the study. One part of this project (the Santa Cruz section ) had been settled in the 1930's, the other part (the section Piranem…
Itaguai: Old Habits and New Practices in a Brazilian Land Settlement
of the Nucleo Colonial de Santa Cruz.And of course by my informants, the settlers of the project, among whom Laerte stood out.Unlike a technician, a sociologist cannot achieve actual improvements.He talks more than he acts.One of the reasons why this book was written, however, was the hope that all this talk will allow some future action.In the Netherlands, I owe gratitude to those of my teachers and colleagues who discussed certain problems with…
Rural Sociology in 1972: An Introduction
The Future of Rural Sociology
THE FUTURE OF RURAL SOCIOLOGYRural sociology is stagnating because it has been focusing too uncritically on the adaptation of rural sub-systems to the main society and because it seems unable to relate its subject anew to the global society. An outline of a new, comprehensive, theoretical model is suggested, and in terms of this model the discipline is given new tasks. Emphasis is laid on the provision of feedback information, not in the first pl…
The Current Status of Rural Sociology
In the firm belief that rural sociology is currently in a state of malaise, this paper attempts to diagnose the sickness. Some of the main aspects of what is called 'conventional rural sociology' are outlined and their limitations discussed. It is argued strongly that rural sociology must become more theoretically-oriented in the problems it sets itself and that more attention be given to conceptual and theoretical issues. It is hoped that the pa…
Incentives, Levelling Mechanisms and Rural Development
Levelling mechanisms have been frequently found by anthropologists in rural communities. Such mechanisms had the function of helping to maintain the coherence of relatively small territorial social units by preventing the exploitation of one member or group by another and guaranteeing all full members access to common resources.Vestiges of such mechanisms may still be found in areas which have been opened up to national or international market fo…
Peasant Co-operation, Consciousness and Solidarity
Paper prepared for the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Amsterdam, 19–23 March 1975
Workshop J: Alternative Development Strategies
Counterdevelopment: A Position Paper
Journal Article Counterdevelopment: A Position Paper Get access BENNO GALJART BENNO GALJART Benno Galjart is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Leiden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Community Development Journal, Volume 16, Issue 2, April 1981, Pages 88–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/16.2.88 Published: 01 April 1981
Participatory Development Projects Some Conclusions From Research: Some Conclusions From Research
Based on an analysis of cases culled from the literature and collected in the field, a model of small-scale participatory development projects is constructed. The article begins with an attempt to anchor participation within development theory. Then critera for what, on this basis, should be considered a successful project are spelled out. Selected problems, connected with the economic, the organizational and the educational aspects of participat…
Pooling as a contemporary phenomenon
1. As a development sociologist, one is neither fully involved in the sociological tradition, nor a full-fledged anthropologist. Normally this is an uncomfortable position, like that of any m?tis, but it also enables one, from time to time, to suggest links. This paper is about three such suggestions. One is that pooling, or redistribution, is a contemporary form of exchange that is rather widespread in industrialized as well as developing societ…
Co-operation as Pooling: A Rational Choice Perspective
Sustainability as the maintenance of things: Analogies for an environmental sociology
Care for the natural environment consists of nothing else than maintenance activities with respect to a large number of material objects. The question is whether these activities can be compared with the maintenance of other things. Things are variously ‘embedded’ socially in terms of ownership and use and culturally in terms of value. Perhaps, because objects differ so much in their embeddedness and are so differently maintained, a sociology of …
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