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General References for the Sociology of Development

Evans, Peter, and John D. Stephens. 1988. "Studying Development Since the Sixties: The Emergence of a New Comparative Political Economy." Theory and Society 17:713-745.

Leys, Colin. 1996. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Portes, Alejandro. 1976. "The Sociology of National Development." American Journal of Sociology 82:55-85.

Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf.

Valenzuela, Arturo, and J. Samuel Valenzuela. 1978. "Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment." Comparative Politics 10:535-557.

Classical Sociological Texts on Development

Durkheim, Emile. 1984. The Division of Labour in Society. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Marx, Karl. 1963. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. New York: International Publishers.

Marx, Karl. 1964. Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850. New York: International Publishers.

Marx, Karl. 1967. Capital vol. 1. New York: International Publishers.

Weber, Max. 1952. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society : An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Modernization Theory

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N. 1970. "Social Change and Development." in Readings in Social Evolution and Development, edited by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Oxford: Pergamon.

Inkeles, Alex, and David H. Smith. 1974. Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lerner, Daniel. 1958. The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East. New York: Free Press.

Lerner, Daniel. 1968. "Modernization: Social Aspects." in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills. New York: The Macmillan Company & the Free Press.

Parsons, Talcott. 1937. The Structure of Social Action: a Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Parsons, Talcott. 1951. The Social System. New York: Free Press.

Rostow, Walt W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. London: Cambridge University Press.

Smelser, Neil. 1966. "The Modernization of Social Relations." in Modernization: The Dynamics of Growth, edited by Myron Weiner. Boulder, CO: L. Rienner.

Dependency/ World-System Approaches

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1998. Global formation : Structures of the World-Economy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Chirot, Daniel, and Thomas D. Hall. 1982. "World System Theory." Annual Review of Sociology 8:81-106.

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique , and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dos Santos, Theotonio. 1971. "The Structure of Dependence." The American Economic Review 60:231-236.

Frank, Andre Gunder. 1967. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil. Ne York: Monthly Review Press.

Galtung, Johan. 1972. "A Structural Theory of Imperialism." African Review 1:93-138.

Hechter, Michael. 1975. Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy. New York: Academic Press.

The New Comparative Institutionalism

Becker, David. 1983. The New Bourgeoisie and the Limits of Dependency: Mining, Class and Power in 'Revolutionary' Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Brenner, Robert. 1976. "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe." Past and Present 70:30-75.

Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (Eds.). 1985. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gerschenkron, Alexander. 1962. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Heller, Patrick. 1999. The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Katznelson, Ira, and Aristide R. Zolberg (Eds.). 1986. Working Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Mahoney, James. 2001. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power. Volume 1: A History of Power in Agrarian Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press.

O'Donnell, Guillermo. 1973. Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies.

Paige, Jeffery M. 1975. Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World. New York: Free Press.

Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press.

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stephens, John D. 1979. The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism. London:: Macmillan.

Thompson, E. P. 1963. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage Books.

Waldner, David. 1999. State Building and Late Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Social Capital Approaches

Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bourdieu, Pierre, and Loic Wacquant. 1992. Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Burt, Ronald. 1992. Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Coleman, James. 1990. Foundation of Social Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Evans, Peter (Ed.). 1997. State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development. Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley.

Light, Ivan, and Stavros Karageorgis. 1994. "The Ethnic Economy." in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton/ New York: Princeton University Press/ Russell Sage Foundation.

Portes, Alejandro. 1995. "Economic Sociology and the Sociology of Immigration: A Conceptual Overview." Pp. 1-41 in The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship, edited by Alejandro Portes. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Portes, Alejandro, and Patricia Landolt. 1996. "The Downside of Social Capital." The American Prospect 26:18-21.

Portes, Alejandro, and Julia Sensenbrenner. 1993. "Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action." American Journal of Sociology 98:1320-1350.

Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Wade, Robert. 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Waldinger, Roger, Howard Aldrich, and Robin Ward. 1990. Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant and Ethnic Business in Western Industrial Societies. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Woolcock, Michael. 1998. "Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and policy Framework." Theory and Society 27:151-208.

Globalization Approaches to Development

Appadurai, Arjun. 1990. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy." Public Culture 2:1-24.

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Barber, Benjamin R. 1995. Jihad vs. McWorld. New York: Times Books.

Basch, Linda, Nina Glick Schiller, and Christina Szanton Blanc. 1994. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicatements, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Langhorne, PA: Gordan and Breach.

Boli, John, and George M. Thomas (Eds.). 1999. Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Bonacich, Edna, and et al. 1994. Global Production : the Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Brenner, Neil. 1999. "Beyond State-Centrism? Space, Territoriality and Geographical Scale in Globalization Studies." Theory and Society 28:39-78.

Castells, Manuel. 1997. The Information Age. Oxford: Blackwell.

Featherstone, Mike (Ed.). 1990. Global Culture : Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity. London and Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Gereffi, Gary. 1994. "The International Economy." in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press/ Russell Sage Foundation.

Gereffi, Gary, and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz. 1994. Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch, and Christina Blanc-Szanton (Eds.). 1992. Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity and Nationalism reconsidered. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

Guarnizo, Luis E. 2001. "On the Political Participation of Transnational Migrants: Old Practices and New Trends." Pp. 213-266 in E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, edited by Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Hall, Stuart. 1991. "The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity." in Culture, Globalization and the World-System, edited by A. D. King. Binghamton: Department of Art and Art History, State University of New York-Binghamton.

Hannerz, Ulf. 1996. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London: Routledge.

Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell.

Meyer, John W., John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez. 1997. "World Society and the Nation-State." American Journal of Sociology 103:144-181.

Portes, Alejandro. 1996. "Transnational Communities: Their Emergence and Significance in the Contemporary World System." in Latin America and the World Economy, edited by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and William C. Smith. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Pries, Ludger (Ed.). 2001. New Transnational Social Spaces: International Migration and Transnational Companies in the Early Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge.

Putnam, Robert, with Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ritzer, George. 1993. The McDonaldization of Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.

Sassen, Saskia. 1988. The Mobility of Labour and Capital. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sassen, Saskia. 1990. The Global City. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sassen, Saskia 1996. Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sassen, Saskia. 1998. Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. New York: New Press.

Saxenian, Annalee. 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Thomas, George M., John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and John Boli. 1987. Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society, and the Individual. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.