At the close of World War II, "development" began to evolve along two paths. On the first path, scholars aimed to generate theoretical understandings of social change, especially at the national level ...

AMERICAN sociology has now a long and honourable history behind it ; the vitality which it shows at the present time is in large measure due to the soundness of the foundations that have been laid ...

Zalanga's doctoral fieldwork focused on the comparative role of ruling elite coalitions in development policy formulation and implementation in Malaysia and Nigeria. He specifically studied the ...