The Sociology of Development HandbookThe Sociology of Development Handbook gathers essays that reflect the range of debates in development sociology and in the interdisciplinary study and practice of development. The essays address the pressing intellectual challenges of today, including internal and international migration, transformation of political regimes, globalization, changes in household and family formations, gender dynamics, technological change, population and economic growth, environmental sustainability, peace and war, and the production and reproduction of social and economic inequality.Ê |
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures | 1 |
The Evolution of a Field | 21 |
Population and Development | 48 |
Strengthening the Ties between Environmental Sociology | 69 |
The Sources of Socioeconomic Development | 95 |
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Global North | 129 |
The Impact of Womens Economic | 153 |
Political | 190 |
Migrant Networks Immigrant and Ethnic Economies | 362 |
DEVELOPMENT TRIUMPHS | 391 |
Women Democracy and the State | 414 |
Questions Answers and Prospects for | 440 |
Neoliberalism the Origins of the Global Crisis and the Future | 463 |
Crisis and the Rise of China | 485 |
Conflict and Development in SubSaharan Africa | 505 |
Social Movements and Economic Development | 528 |
Beyond Malthus | 207 |
Development Demographic Processes and Public Health | 224 |
Education and Development | 241 |
Conceptual | 265 |
The Making | 293 |
Virtuous and Vicious Cycles | 311 |
Strategies of Global South | 340 |
NEW PARADIGMS | 551 |
Past and Present | 577 |
Quantitative Growth and Economic Development through | 597 |
Why Did Industrial Capitalism Emerge | 620 |
Global Commodity Chains and Development | 645 |
List of Contributors | 667 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Sociology of Development Handbook |
| Editor | Gregory Hooks |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2016 |
| ISBN | 0520277783, 9780520277786 |
| Length | 728 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Sociology / General |
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