Introduction to the Sociology of “Developing Societies”

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Imperialism: A Historical Survey....Pages 11-28
The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis....Pages 29-53
The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism....Pages 54-71
Colonialism in the Words of Its Contemporaries....Pages 72-77
The Losers....Pages 78-80
Colonialism’s Last Days: The “Emergency” in Malaya....Pages 81-84
Colonialism’s Last Days: An Orderly Decolonization in Malawi....Pages 85-87
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism....Pages 88-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Pathways of Social Development: A Brief Against Suprahistorical Theory....Pages 109-111
Dependency and Development in Latin America....Pages 112-127
The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development....Pages 128-152
Developing Societies as Part of an International Political Economy....Pages 153-171
The Structure of Peripheral Capitalism....Pages 172-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
A Morphology of Backwardness....Pages 195-204
The Disarticulation of Economy Within “Developing Societies”....Pages 205-209
Center, Periphery, and the Crisis of the System....Pages 210-217
Industrialization, Development, and Dependence....Pages 218-235
Poverty in the Third World: Ugly Facts and Fancy Models....Pages 236-251
The Political Ideology of Population Control....Pages 252-259
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The Dimension of Environment....Pages 260-261
Class Formation as an “Articulation” Process: East African Cases....Pages 262-278
Workers in Developing Societies....Pages 279-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
State and Class Under Peripheral Capitalism....Pages 289-307
Class, State, and Revolution: Substitutes and Realities....Pages 308-331
Samuel Huntington and the End of Classical Modernization Theory....Pages 332-349
The Death of Salvador Allende....Pages 350-360
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
The New Metropolis....Pages 363-365
Cities in Developing Societies....Pages 366-386
Family Structure and the Division of Labor: Female Roles in Urban Ghana....Pages 387-405
Culture of Dependency: Arts and Political Ethos....Pages 406-407
Learning to Be… What? Shaping Education in “Developing Societies”....Pages 408-421
Reflections and Refractions on the Flow of Information....Pages 422-429
Nationalism and “Development”....Pages 430-434
Ideology and Identity: An Approach from History....Pages 435-456
Back Matter....Pages 457-474