Sociology of Development

COURSE OUTLINE: The objective of the course is to familiarize students with the current issues and debates concerning development. The concept of development, as historically conditioned, has had several connotations, starting from incessant preoccupation with economic growth during the years following independence to the current engagement with human and social development with the active inclusion of local communities in the process. The course attempts to understand the current practices of development by an analysis of the approaches, agencies and issues involved in it.

Sociology of Development [Intro Video].
Lec 1: Sociology of development: an overview.
Lec 2: Development historically.
Lec 3: Decolonizaton, nationalism and development - I.
Lec 4: Decolonization, nationalism and development - II.
Lec 5: Decolonization, nationalism and development - III.
Lec 6: Social evolution and social change.
Lec 7: Social change and progress.
Lec 8: Modernization Theory: An Overview.
Lec 9: State and Class under Peripheral Capitalism.
Lec 10: Critique of Samuel Huntington.
Lec 11: Class, State and Revolution.
Lec 12: The Empirical Peasantry and the Hypothetical Proletariat.
Lec 13: Class and Classness: Substitutes and Realities.
Lec 14: Modernization and Huntington's Argument.
Lec 15: Huntington, Social Sciences and Ideology.
Lec 16: The Ideological, Empirical and Methodological Critiques - I.
Lec 17: The Ideological, Empirical and Methodological Critiques - II.
Lec 18: Dependency Theory: Intellectual Antecedents.
Lec 19: The Latin American Debates on Underdevelopment - I.
Lec 20: The Latin American Debates on Underdevelopment - II.
Lec 21: Dependency Theory in Transition - I.
Lec 22: Dependency Theory in Transition - II.
Lec 23: Critiques of Dependency Theory - I.
Lec 24: Critiques of Dependency Theory - II.
Lec 25: Limits to Growth I.
Lec 26: Limits to Growth II.
Lec 27: E. F. Schmacher's Small is Beautiful.
Lec 28: Ivan Illich's Towards a History of Needs.
Lec 29: Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Development studies in the 21st century I.
Lec 30: Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Development studies in the 21st century II.