Question

Concept of growth and development in sociology

Answer 1

dvelopment was a post–World War II concept used to describe and explain economic and social change throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and southeastern Europe. President Harry Truman (1884–1972) launched “the era of development” in 1949 when he committed the United States to making scientific and industrial advances available to underdeveloped areas. Four major theoretical and policy perspectives regarding development have been proposed: modernity (roughly 1940s–1950s), dependency (1960s–1970s), world systems (1980s–2000s), and market reform (1980s–2000s). Institutional, feminist, and capability perspectives also have informed development discourse. In various contexts, development has signified economic growth, income disparity, or class conflict within and between nation-states and regions of the world, and it has incorporated economic, political, and social change as well as enhanced individual freedom.