Research Catalog

Title

At the crossroads of development : transnational challenges to developed and developing societies / edited by Joseph E. Behar and Alfred G. Cuzán.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Behar, Joseph E.
• Cuzán, Alfred G.

Description

174 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• The 10 articles assembled in this volume examine old problems and new opportunities in development that are associated with trade, communication, population distribution and migration, culture and institutions. They explore possibilities for and obstacles to technological and institutional transfers between developed and developing societies at a time when capitalism and democracy appear triumphant.
• Points of convergence, parallel processes and equivalences in social problems and potential solutions across levels of development are noted. They point out that the hierarchy of the world economic system and indigenous cultures militate against the homogenization of the globe along Western lines.

Series Statement

International studies in sociology and social anthropology, 0074-8684 ; v. 65

Uniform Title

International studies in sociology and social anthropology v. 65.

Alternative Title

• Cross roads of development
• Transnational challenges to developed and developing societies
• Developed and developing societies

Subject

• Economic history
• Social conditions
• Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling
• Developing countries > Social conditions
• Developing countries > Economic conditions
• Países desarrollados > Condiciones sociales
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Joseph E. Behar and Alfred G. Cuzan -- Technology, Producer Services, and the New International Division of Labor / William J. Haller and Vijai P. Singh -- The Effects of State Strength on Economic Growth in the Third World: A Critical Perspective on World-System Theory / Chien Ju Huang and Harvey Marshall -- Economies of Exclusion: Economic Change and the Global Underclass / Scott Sernau -- The World-City System by the Year 2000 / Andrew Bosworth -- Impacts of Domestic Population Dynamics and Foreign Wood Trade on Deforestation: A World-System Perspective / Edward L. Kick, Thomas J. Burns, Byron Davis, David A. Murray and Dixie A. Murray -- Elder Abuse in Developed and Developing Societies: The US and Costa Rica / Nancy Gilliland and Sandra Jimenez R. -- Privatization and Decentralization in the United States and Chile / William B. Tankersley and Alfred G. Cuzan -- The Third World after the Cold War: Global Imperatives and Local Peculiarities / Shahid M. Shahidullah.

ISBN

• 9004107320
• 9789004107328

LCCN

97116877

OCLC

• 36245994
• SCSB-12830992

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library