Defining development/underdevelopment
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- Created on: 20-01-17 09:22
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- Defining development and underdevelopment
- Peet and Hardwick (
- Development means 'making a better life for everyone'
- It is a powerful emotive - appeals to people's best instincts.
- Controversial because it suggests a fair future for all
- It is a powerful emotive - appeals to people's best instincts.
- Development means 'making a better life for everyone'
- Most sociologists = development should mean 'improvement or progress for people who need change in their lives.
- Some argue that development should only meet the basic needs for survival.
- Main debates = underpinned by modernity. Want to replicate within developing societies place with those seen across modern western societies.
- Most = development is about achieving economic growth and positive social consequence (lower IMR/MMR, mass education) Not achieved = underdeveloped
- Peet and Hardwick (
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