IDEV 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading 3: Intersectionality
21 Jan 2017
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Bringing social theory back into issues of development. Development has moved away from previous connections with social theory. The idea that the west is rising over others in the world have not migrated from the core reading of sociology and politics. Critical insights are limited to the technical difficulties of organizing an intervention. When problems occur they are reduced to the actions of social actors. Diachronic and synchronic comparison is rare due to the linear nature of international development. Militates against the prospect of building on pervious theoretical work in order to connect contextualized studies with broader disciplines. Enforcing ways to sustain the significance of social theories. Theorize social change and social relations in the context of development. And to what end might it be put. A process of systematically formulating and organizing ideas to understand a particular phenomenon. An organized body of concepts and principles intended to explain a particular phenomenon.
