SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Capability Approach, Liberal Democracy, Social Evolution
18 Mar 2014
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Experienced not as opportunity but as damage. Often seems to create more problems than it solves. The politics of development has no neutrality. Argues what we do with the concepts is questionable but the idea shouldn"t be abandoned. Questions how countries in development has been labelled. Problemitize very process of labelling; developing, global south, etc. The field of development studies should aim to explain: Made his speech about the underdeveloped world. After the end of ww2, us was embarking on programs that aimed to make advances for scientific knowledge available to improve conditions outside + inside us. Rise of modernity= period of the great transformation. Refers to rapid social change experience in europe in mid 1700s- 1800s. European societies began to think of development + social change. Permeate the idea that human intervention can transform the world. Modern technology + modern society can control natural environment. Masters of their own destiny to improve human condition.
