Modernization and its Discontents: A Cultural Perspective on Theories of Development

Banuri, Tariq

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“…As Wilkins and Waters (2000) noted, "this approach promotes communication as a hierarchical channel for the transmission of information, avoiding reference to the content or context of communication processes." The limitations of this perspective reflect what Banuri (1990) criticized as the artifacts of the culture that produced modernization theory. The modernization perspective believes that the modern lifestyle is superior, therefore development is perceived as an effort to help the Third World "catch up."…”

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“…Although recent examples recognize that the system is highly complex, the assumptions of determinism require the system to be closed. Banuri (1990), for example, recognized as much in acknowledging that modernization may apply to a limited number of situations. Critics and advocates of this perspective might center their exchange on what is at stake in assuming a closed system.…”

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Technology and Context Within Research on International Development Programs: Positioning an Integrationist Perspective

Houston

2003

Communication Theory

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We focus on development efforts that use information and communication technologies for educational purposes in developing nations. The oppositional nature of the approaches to development makes constructive dialogue among theoretical perspectives difficult. Using Jackson's (1996) metatheoretical classification scheme, we sort development research based on 4 possible logical relationships between technology as an artifact and the social context. Derivation of the scheme is principled rather than historical and independent of any particular theory. Focusing on assumptions about technology and context brings new understanding of each perspective and can foster a dialogue across the perspectives. Further, we offer that self-organizing systems theory possesses the potential of representing an integrationist perspective in development research.

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Technology and Context Within Research on International Development Programs: Positioning an Integrationist Perspective

Houston

2003

Communication Theory

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“…Banuri (1990), for example, recognized as much in acknowledging that modernization may apply to a limited number of situations. Although recent examples recognize that the system is highly complex, the assumptions of determinism require the system to be closed.…”

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“…From the above discussion, it appears that one weakness of this perspective is that it has been utilized more in a post hoc fashion to explain failure rather than in a proactive manner to plan for development. A one-way causality remains at the center of this perspective; an impersonal worldview that assumes all human actions are reducible to the impersonal act of human behavior (Banuri, 1990). A substantive problem highlighted by this perspective is the relative strength of social structure vis-à-vis technological change.…”

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Technology and Context Within Research on International Development Programs: Positioning an Integrationist Perspective

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2003

Commun Theory

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“…Despite the enormous interest generated in the project of psychology-in-aid-of-development among both economists and psychologists, the definition of economic development and the strategies of understanding defined by economists (and to a lesser extent, by political scientists and sociologists) have not been critically examined by psychologists (for a good multi-disciplinary review of the literature and issues, see Banuri 1990aBanuri , 1990b. This, in our view, has been a major constraint to progress.…”

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Psychology and Development: A Conceptual Itinerary

Zaman

1994

Psychology and Developing Societies

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This paper suggests that psychology can contribute to a better understanding of conditions prevailing in "underdeveloped" countries. To do so, however, psychologists must overcome psychology's almost exclusive focus on the individual; and economists, the tendency of their discipline to look at "developing "societies not in terms of their own experience but in terms of the experience of European-type societies. With these shifts, the paper proposes a three-point strategy: (a) "underdevelopment" should be defined not in terms of deficits of wealth and capital accumulation, but in terms of appropriately selected psychological variables (for example, by combining Hirschman's Exit-VoiceLoyalty framework with Bandura's social cognitive theory, deficits of perceived selfefficacy-at individual and collective levels—can provide a potential alternative definition); (b) an ideographic theory of "social helplessness" is then sketched" in the light of historical experience for Pakistan; and (c) the possibility of psychosocial therapeutic (or, policy) interventions are then examined with reference especially to Bandura's work on human agency and Beck's work on treatment of depression. In conclusion, the paper calls for a greater consensus on the paradigm proposed, or extensions of it, before further research takes place.In the animal kingdom, the rule is eat or be eaten. In the human kingdom, define or be defined.T.S. Szasz (1973, p.20) The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

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Modernization and its Discontents: A Cultural Perspective on Theories of Development

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Technology and Context Within Research on International Development Programs: Positioning an Integrationist Perspective

Technology and Context Within Research on International Development Programs: Positioning an Integrationist Perspective

Technology and Context Within Research on International Development Programs: Positioning an Integrationist Perspective

Psychology and Development: A Conceptual Itinerary

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