N sosiologies-demografiese perspektief op enkele basiese ontwikkelingsprobleme van onderontwikkelde gemeenskappe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20455429 |
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| Authors | N J Rhoodie, Nic Rhoodie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 1973 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 4-13 |
| Publication date | 1973-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-0144 • E-ISSN: 1999-9135 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02580144.1973.10429204 |
| OpenAlex | W1974356028 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Poverty, currently endemic in practically all Third World countries, has prompted many social scientists to study this phenomenon as a sociological process, a way of life and a subculture. Decolonization in Asia and Africa after the Second World War has sparked off considerableinterest in the so-called'development vacuum' which the political withdrawal of the erstwhile 'rolonial overlords' left in its wake. Scientists and statesmen throughout the developed world suddenly became acutely conscious of the development problems of the Third World, particularly the duties and obligations that it imposed upon them. Sociologsts in particular are today convinced that they have a key role to play in the scientific study of these problems, amongst others the massive poverty problem. However, the 'have-not' nations resent social-scientists approaching these problems in a spirit of ivory tower intellectual condescension. Sociologists should also jettison the misconception that modernization must necessarily exact the price of denationalisation on the part of the peoples concerned. Furthermore. the former cannot expect modernization in the Third World to take place in an ideological vacuum. Sociologists should also endeavour to impress upon Third World social scientists to avoid sterile arm-chair social philosophies: the latter should be encouraged to concentrate in particular on sociologicalstudies relevant to the problems of the peoples concerned. Third World sociologists should aim at a sociological relevance theoretically founded on, and academically-professionally integrated with a universal discipline which will be able to assert and justify itself, intrinsically as sociology, in the modern constellation of pure sciences — despite the practical demands of regional and national realities
Economic history · Environmental ethics · Ideology · Ivory tower · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Third world · World War II · Dutch Social and Cultural Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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