The Multiple Society in Economic Development: Mexico and Guatemala

Nash, Manning

doi:10.1525/aa.1957.59.5.02a00070

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“…That this cultural debate has been present since development was conceived at the end of World War II 6 can be seen in the fact that the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change was published for the first time in 1952. There were many social scientists and historians who provided cultural interpretations of underdevelopment, among them Nash (1957), Lerner (1958), andHoselitz (1960). Worsley (1984) argued that the sociology of Talcott Parsons is a cultural interpretation of development and underdevelopment.…”

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Sustainable Development

Castro¹

2004

Organization & Environment

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Like democracy and globalization, the concept of sustainable development has become one of the most ubiquitous, contested, and indispensable concepts of our time. Although the concept was first introduced in response to environmental concerns, it has been defined primarily by the mainstream tradition of economic analysis, which tends to marginalize the issue of ecological sustainability itself. Recently, however, scholars advancing various critical perspectives challenged the mainstream economic analysis of sustainable development. This essay examines the presuppositions, logic, and major themes of mainstream sustainable development theory, primarily within economics, and explores the critiques of mainstream analysis offered by various poststructuralist cultural theorists and ecological Marxists. Although considered to be superior in their greater emphasis on ecological sustainability, neither of these critical approaches is deemed adequate in itself. The argument here instead leads to the conception that an adequate approach to sustainable development requires combining insights from various critical approaches and perspectives.

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Sustainable Development

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2004

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“…In the perspective of social anthropology these formulations are particularly It is a bit more sociological in scope than Lenin's notion of the "commanding heights of politics and economics," a little less political than the usual "elite/mass" dichotomy (from Mosca on to Clark Kerr, et al) and somewhat less diagnostic than the notion of "multiple society with plural cultures" (Nash 1957). and inhibits its constituent parts.…”

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“…To understand the interplay of the national society and its components, several interesting and complimentary formulations are available. In the perspective of social anthropology these formulations are particularly (Nash 1957). Whatever the particular emphasis a given researcher places among these ideas, he is nonetheless directed to a focus on competing groups, persons, and their institutional relations as to degrees of commitment and resistence to modernization posed in a manner that has immediate empirical relevance.…”

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Modernizaiton as a Problem: An Anthropological View

Nash

1979

Cent Issues Anthropol

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Modernization, as a concept, has been widely used in social science. It has experienced definition and redefinition in its use as a tool to help explain social and cultural change. This article tentatively examines the concept as used in anthropology and suggests a "strategy for study" about an on-going, historical process.When a concept or idea in social science has been in use for more than 25-50 years, it tends to follow a cycle of definition, redefinition, defense, attack and virtual abandonment as a guide for research or new formulation, and finally finds a reduced place in the accepted budget of theoretical discourse. Modernization, as a process of social change, has gone through all but the final phase in the vicissitudes of the conceptual cycle. This paper is, in part an attempt to place the concept of modernization in the accepted armory of devices pointing to continued and fruitful research and generalization. The approach is to view modernizaiton, in the light of more than 25 years research, as a problem, and to see what an anthropological perspective does for the solution of that problem.Modernization, as a process of social change, has long been a problem to all of the social sciences. In fact, social science, as a disciplined systematic inquiry into the life of man in rule governed groups, was born from the 19th century concern with the movement of Western society from traditional to modern, or more precisely, from feudal, hierarchial, rural, and agricultural social forms to capitalistic, class, urban, and industrial forms. The hierarchial, organic, and static traditional society had become the class structured, agonistic, individualistic, and mobile dynamic society. This change, incremental and centuries long, was viewed by 19th century intellectuals tand many in the 20th century) as a watershed divide in history, the problem of social change to be accounted for, explained, celebrated, or deplored. The 19th century sociologists, many of them, and certainly the most influential among them, tended to think in polar opposites, in social dichotomies, in ideal types, paralleling the great divide theory of social change, and, of course, the evident success and power of the industrial

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Agencies, goals and clients: A Cross-cultural analysis

Carlos

Brokensha

1972

St Comp Int Dev

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The Multiple Society in Economic Development: Mexico and Guatemala

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