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SOCI 403/423 Theories of Social Development

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Inequalities among nations; Affluence and socio-economic deprivations; The Three Worlds: their characteristics, emergence and dynamism; European contact and colonialism in the world, Nationalism; Post-World War II context and origins of development as planned change; Meanings and measurement of development: socioeconomic indicators, human development indicators, human poverty indicators, etc; Theories of development and sociological approaches to social change: evolutionism, neo-evolutionism, modernization theory, theory of underdevelopment or dependency theory, Political economy of international relations: ideologies of development: liberalism/capitalism, economic nationalism, Marxism, socialism/communism; Neo-liberalism and democracy.