On the Sociology of National Development
Theories and Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2208656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Portes (0000-0002-0864-878X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-85 |
| Publication date | 1976-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/226270 |
| OpenAlex | W2107661422 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 101 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper reviews the different perspectives from which the problem of national development has been approached by sociology. General characteristics of the problem of development and definitions of the term are discussed in the introductory sections. The perspectives reviewed are labeled "development as social differentiation," "development as enactment of values," and "development as liberation from dependency." The main trend noted is movement from earlier extrapolations of theories based on the unique European experience to more historically grounded analyses. Recent approaches to development are not without limitations, and these are reviewed, as are those of earlier evolutionary and psychosocial perspectives
Development theory · International Development and Aid · Religion, Society, and Development
The History of a Mexican Urban Family
Development and Gender-Linked Economic Inequality in the Era of Globalization
Toward a New Economic Sociology of Development
The Transnational Women's Rights Movement and the World Economy
Is It Possible to Create a New Indigenous Technology from an Imported Technology
Cultural Conflict in Technology Transfer to Non-Industrial Communities
A Gramscian Approach to Interpreting International Communication
Choosing an Identity
Technology and the Modern World-System
Reservation Development in the United States
The Persistence of Structural Inequality? A Network Analysis of International Trade, 1965-2000
Politics and Female Status in North Africa
Structural Position in the World System and Economic Growth, 1955-1970
The Interest of Bureaucrats
Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality
Community and Individual Ethnicity
A Note on the Measurement of Growth Rates in Cross-National Research
Overurbanization Reconceptualized
Race, Gender, and Development in Brazil
Fertility and child spacing among the urban Poor in a Third World city
Economic-Sociological Alternative of Karl Polanyi
Towards the Question of the Business Culture
Place and role of development communication in directed social change
Class Relations in Java in the Nineteenth Century
Development and urbanization
Restructurations agricoles en Tunisie
The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis
Centres and peripheries
Teachers and the evolving structural context of economic and political attitudes in Quebec society
Supporting the Posts in Development Discourse
Local modes of practice in an age of globalization
Making sense of literary aging
Sociology and development in the 1990s
Investment penetration in manufacturing and extraction and external public debt in Third World states
On the Indigenization of Academic Discourse
Press Freedom in the Philippines
Analyzing development, dependency and underdevelopment
International dependence and urbanization in East Asia
Media imperialism
The Elderly in Society
Development Sociology As We Approach the 21st Century
The Influence of the World System on War in the Third World
National Development and the Language Planning Challenge in St Lucia, West Indies
Islamic revival in the maghreb
Sociological explanations of economic growth
Universality of modernization
Is “Unequal exchange” a mechanism for perpetuating inequality in the modern world system
Quantitative cross-national studies of economic development
The contribution of foreign investment to growth in Third World states
Social changes under the impacts of economic transformation in Taiwan
Communication and Development
The Shifting Paradigms of Primordial Unit of Social Reality and the Swerving Ideologies on Women’s Situation in Society
Family and Economic Growth
Status in the World Economy and National Structure and Development
Foreign Investment and Disparities in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction
Sociology and the study of non-western societies
South Korea under Park Chung Hee
Durkheim and Development Theory
Urban Ecology
Modernization and Ideological Polarization on a Global Scale
Global and National Sources of Political Protest
The New Urban Sociology Meets the Old
The ugly scholar
Dependence on Foreign Investment and Economic Growth in the Third World
Secularization and States of Modernity
The Military Burden and Basic Human Needs
Foreign Involvement in the Preconditions for Political Violence
Change and Persistence in the World System
Development, Dependence, and Gender Inequality in the Third World
Dependency theory
The Political Economy of Economic Growth
Modeling Dependence and Underdevelopment
The Poverty of Political Culture
A Renaissance of Political Culture
Development and crime in Africa
Connected Sociologies
Equilibrium and Historical- Structural Perspectives on Migration
Inequality Within Rural Communities of India
Political Conflict in the World Economy
American Penetration and Canadian Development
Beyond the dependency paradigm
World System Position, Dependency, and Democracy
The Effects of Foreign Investment on Overall and Sectoral Growth in Third World States
Is Inequality Becoming Just? Changes in Public Opinion about Economic Distribution in Chile
Quebec, Wales, and Scotland
Varieties of Expression in the New International Comparative Political Economy
Raça e gênero no Brasil
The Effect of Globalization on National Income Inequality
World-System Theory
How Exceptional Is the West? An Investigation of Worldwide Trends in Societal-Average Levels of Religiosity, 1981-2020
Inscribing Gender in Rural Development
Structural and Exchange Components of Occupational Mobility
Socialism and Dependency in Parsons' Theory of Evolution
Rural-Urban Migration and Social Mobility in Third World Metropolises
Globalizing Social Problems
The Theory of Industrial Society and Cultural Schemata
Homeward Bound? Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform
World-Economic Trends in the Distribution of Income, 1965-1992
Rereadingthe Passing of Traditional Society
Modernity and ethnic affiliation in Israeli schools
The National System of Political Economy
Development and Underdevelopment
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
The Passing of Traditional Society
Max Weber
The politics of modernization
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Modernization and the Structure of Societies
Religion and Progress in Modern Asia
Motivational Patterns in Southeast Asia with Special Reference to the Chinese Case 1
The Passing of Traditional Society
Social Change, Differentiation and Evolution
International Stratification and Underdeveloped Countries
The Development of Social Thought
Modernización y golpes militares Teoría, comparación y el caso argentino
Las contradicciones del desarrollo asociado
Peasant Society and Culture
La Civilisation, mère de Barbarie
Religion and Progress in Modern Asia
Measuring Modernism
Tradition and Modernity
| Unique citing works | 101 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2025 (49) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |