Description
Pre-requisite: SOC 1301 or SSC 1310
The course is designed as a general introduction to the various theories that have been used in development from the early 1950s to the present day. The course will examine the origins and contexts of these various theories and why there has been a constant need to reassess them. The reasons for the collapse of development schemes and even whole national policies have often been placed on 'cultural factors'. The course will cover these cultural factors and look at how they have directly affected the new, current thinking in development, whether rural or urban.