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Social transformation, development and globalization

Author(s) -

Habibul Haque Khondker,

Ulrike Schuerkens

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

sociopedia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2056-8460

DOI - 10.1177/205684601423

Subject(s) - globalization , social transformation , transformation (genetics) , social change , economic geography , economic system , political science , geography , economic growth , economics , biology , biochemistry , law , gene

This article presents the various theoretical approaches to the study of social transformation and sociology of development since the emergence of this sub-field in sociology. In discussing various par - adigms of social change and social transformation, the article questions the Eurocentric assumptions of a seemingly linear trajectory. In summarizing the developments in the field of sociology of development, this article synthesizes various theoretical strands such as modernization theories, dependency and world- systems theories, and globalization and multiple modernity theories.

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