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Paradigms of social change : modernization, development, transformation, evolution / Waltraud Schelkle ... [and others], (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Congresses.
- Social change.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Paradigms lost
- and found / Waltraud Schelkle, Wolf-Hagen Krauth 11
- Modernization
- Modernization Theory and Economic Growth / Johannes Berger 31
- "Modernization" Discourses, their Limitations, and their Alternatives / Goran Therborn 49
- Comment on Goran Therborn / Hans Joas 73
- Modernization as Transformation / Andreas Wimmer 77
- Summary: Modernization 91
- Transformation
- Struggle, Democratization, and Political Transformation / Charles Tilly 95
- The System Paradigm / Janos Kornai 111
- Reflections on Janos Kornai's Notion of a "System Paradigm" / Andreas Ryll 135
- A Paradigm Destroyed. On the Opportunity of Revising Theories of Institutional Transformation / Helmut Wiesenthal 145
- Summary: Transformation 167
- Development
- Evolution of Development Theory and Strategy: Changing Perceptions of the Role of the Market, State and Foreign Trade / T.N. Srinivasan 171
- States Against Markets: Comments on T.N. Srinivasan / Ulrich Menzel 199
- The Development Paradigm in Economics: Comment on T.N. Srinivasan / Waltraud Schelkle 219
- The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries / Charles Gore 231
- Summary: Development 253
- Evolution
- Evolution: The Darwinian Theory of Social Change / Peter J. Richerson, Richard Boyd 257
- Why Darwinism Fails in Explaining Social and Cultural Evolution
- Comments on Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd / Max Miller 283
- Theories of Social Change
- A Remark on the Status of Evolutionary Theories / Andre Kieserling 291
- The Evolutionary Paradigm in the Social Sciences
- An Economist's Point of View / Uwe Cantner 299
- More than a Metaphor: the neo-Darwinian Paradigm for the Explanation of Social Change / W.G. Runciman 307
- Summary: Evolution 315.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0312233949
- 3593365332
- OCLC:
- 45618374
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