The Study of Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2748510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Portes (0000-0002-0864-878X, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 213-221 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0023879100026649 |
| OpenAlex | W4312781239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
The third of these books should have been more properly entitled, "Beyond the Sociology of Modernization," for it is not the problem of development but the particular perspective dominant in the English-speaking world during the last decades which it criticizes. Assuming this modified title, the relationship between the three volumes becomes clear. What they have in common is a concern for nations, communities, and individuals in the poorer regions of the worldthose on the periphery of the industrialized West and not belonging to the Socialist sphere. Where they differ is in their approach to the problem: The Inkeles and Smith book represents a natural culmination of the psychocultural perspective on social change propounded by many U.S. theorists in the past; the Poggie and Lynch volume enters into a dialogue with this approach in the attempt to find the bearings of their discipline-anthropology-for dealing with macro-social "evolution"; the Oxaal et al. book rejects the modernism framework and moves on to deal with national and regional development within the neo-Marxist framework of external dependency and internal colonialism. I will respect conventions by dealing wi th each book in turn and reserving collective evalua tions for the end. The standpoint from which each book approaches the problem of underdevelopment offers a fairly natural sequence for discussion
Action (physics) · Business · Content (measure theory) · Development (topology) · Physics · Process engineering · Process management · Computer Science · Ego Development and Educational Practices · Engineering · Human Rights and Development · Mathematics · World Systems and Global Transformations
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2025 (50) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |