Understanding Change: Anthropological & Sociological Perspectives

by S.C. Dube

This book is about the complex processes of cultural, economic, social, and technological change. Change is inevitable, but it does not follow a narrow and straight developmental change has to encounter many ambiguities and ambivalences, contractions and paradoxes.
How do anthropology and sociology explain change? What are the main strands in the contemporary development debate? What is the new thinking on the role of culture and tradition? What are the implications of ethnicity for developmental aims and programmes? Can the process of change be guided and influenced? Have the social sciences a role? This book addresses itself to these questions.
Students of anthropology, sociology, and development studies as well as those engaged in development programmes and policy-making will find in it much that sharpens their insights and broadens their understanding.

149 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

1922-1996