Rethinking development : essays on development and Southeast Asia / P.W. Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, P. W. (Peter Wallace), 1949-

Series:

Routledge library editions. Development ; Volume 109.

Routledge library editions: development ; 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southeast Asia--History.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Economic policy.

Southeast Asia--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the 'classical tradition' of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim.Preston discusses the position of development studies in relation to the wider group of the social sciences in general and to sociology in particular. Using examples mainly from the study of Southeast Asia, he looks at the diversity of available 'modes of social

Contents:

RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT Essays on Development and Southeast Asia; Copyright; Rethinking development: essays on development and Southeast Asia; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Rethinking development; 2 The rediscovery of the rationalist tradition; 3 Boeke and Furnivall's 'Southeast Asian sociology'; 4 Arguing on behalf of scholarship: Barrington Moore; 5 Arguing on behalf of 'the planners': Chen, Fisk and Higgins; 6 A. G. Frank: the mode of engagement of the 'political writer'; 7 Analysing dependent capitalist development: the Asian NICs

8 Constructing nation-states in Southeast AsiaNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1987 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-85580-7

1-283-53882-2

9786613851277

1-136-85581-5

0-203-83534-4

9780203835340

OCLC:

804663892