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Sociology of Development

Prof. Sambit Mallick · IIT Guwahati

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About

The objective of the course is to familiarize students with the current issues and debates concerning development. The concept of development, as historically conditioned, has had several connotations, starting from incessant preoccupation with economic growth during the years following independence to the current engagement with the human and social development with active inclusion of local communities in the process. The course attempts to understand the current practices of development by an analysis of the approaches, agencies and issues involved in it.

Intended audience: UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering.

Lectures

Week 1: Historical location of the idea of 'development'

  1. Lec 1: Sociology of development: an overview YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Development historically YouTube

Week 2 : End of colonialism, rise of nationalism in the Third World, and the desire for development

  1. Lec 3: Decolonizaton, nationalism and development - I YouTube
  2. Lec 4: Decolonizaton, nationalism and development - II YouTube
  3. Lec 5: Decolonization, nationalism and development - III YouTube

Week 3:Classical sociology, the notions of social change, and ideas of evolution and progress

  1. Lecture 6: Social evolution and social change YouTube
  2. Lecture 7: Social change and progress YouTube

Week 4: Modernisation Theory - I

  1. Lec 8: Modernization Theory: An Overview YouTube
  2. Lec 9: State and Class under Peripheral Capitalism YouTube
  3. Lec 10: Critique of Samuel Huntington YouTube

Week 5: Modernization Theory- II

  1. Lec 11: Class, State and Revolution YouTube
  2. Lec 12: The Empirical Peasantry and the Hypothetical Proletariat YouTube
  3. Lec 13: Class and Classness: Substitutes and Realities YouTube

Week 6: Modernization Theory- III

  1. Lec 14: Modenization and Huntington's Argument YouTube
  2. Lec 15: Huntington, Social Sciences and Ideology YouTube

Week 7: Critiques of Modernization Theory

  1. Lec 16: The Ideological, Empirical and Methodological Critiques - I YouTube
  2. Lec 17: The Ideological, Empirical and Methodological Critiques - II YouTube

Week 8: Dependency Theory - I

  1. Lec 18: Dependency Theory: Intellectual Antecedents YouTube
  2. Lec 19: The Latin American Debates on Underdevelopment - I YouTube
  3. Lec 20 : The Latin American Debates on Underdevelopment - II YouTube

Week 9: Dependency Theory- II

  1. Lec 21: Dependency Theory in Transition - I YouTube
  2. Lec 22: Dependency Theory in Transition - II YouTube

Week 10: Critiques of Dependency Theory

  1. Lec 23: Critiques of Dependency Theory- I YouTube
  2. Lec 24: Critiques of Dependency Theory- II YouTube

Week 11: 'Limits to growth' thesis and post-development

  1. Lec 25: Limits to Growth I YouTube
  2. Lec 26: Limits to Growth II YouTube
  3. Lec 27: E. F. Schmacher's Small is Beautiful YouTube

Week 12: Globalisation and development

  1. Lec 28: Ivan Illich's Towards a History of Needs YouTube
  2. Lec 29: Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Development studies in the 21st century I YouTube
  3. Lec 30: Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Development studies in the 21st century II YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Sambit Mallick
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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