This course is a critical examination of historical range of theories and research in the sociology of development from the post-war period through the present. Major topics include modernization theory, dependency theory, world-system theory, the developmental state, global commodity chains, and globalization. Throughout the course, the concept of development itself is questioned and critiqued both theoretically and in terms of practical challenges from environmental, indigenous and other social movements. Research Design II Spring. Offered alternate years.
Special emphasis is given to use of categorical variables in regression.
Students develop and examine several analytical models using actual data to familiarize themselves with data handling and processing. Extensive use of computers. 643 Land Reform Old and New Spring. Between 1980 and the year 2000 the landless and near-landless in the Third World will approach one billion. Though land reform is a principal source of hope for the landless, its meanings are many and its models controversial.