Development sociology : actor perspectives / Norman Long.
By: Long, Norman.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001Description: xiii, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0415235359; 0415235367 (pbk.).Subject(s): Rural development. -- School of Business and Education | Community development. -- School of Business and Education | Economic development. -- School of Business and Education | Social change. -- School of Business and EducationDDC classification: 307.1/412 Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Kirinyaga University Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | HN49L662001 (Browse shelf) | Available | KYU/2017/6413 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-285) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- PART I -- Theoretical and methodological issues 7 -- 1 The case for an actor-oriented sociology of development 9 -- 2 Demythologising planned intervention 30 -- 3 Building a conceptual and interpretative framework 49 -- 4 Encounters at the interface: social and cultural discontinuities in development and change 73 -- PART II -- Commoditisation, social values and small-scale enterprise 93 -- 5 Commoditisation and issues of social value 95 -- 6 Webs of commitment and debt: the significance of money and social currencies in commodity networks 115 -- 7 Networks, social capital and multiple family-enterprise: local to global 132 -- PART III -- Knowledge interfaces, power and globalisation 167 -- 8 Knowledge, networks and power 169 -- 9 The dynamics of knowledge interfaces between bureaucrats and peasants 189 -- 10 Globalisation and localisation: recontextualising social change 214 -- Appendix: Cornerstones of an actor-oriented approach 240 -- Notes 244 -- Bibliography 264 -- Index 287.