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 theoretic engagement' and considers the work of the colonial
administrator scholar, the humanist academic scholar, and the
scholar who theorises on behalf of the planners, discusses the mode
of political writing, and Marxian analyses of development; and
considers the particular problems surrounding the elites of
post-colonial 'nation states'.
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