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: hbk ISBN 9780415072052
Description
This book spells out the theoretical, methodological and practical implications of an actor-orientated approach to development research. The book concentrates upon issues relating to the study of change and intervention, and explores issues that are of general sociological significance for resolving central problems such as the relationship between agency and structure, micro and macro phenomena, and theory and practice.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 An actor-oriented paradigm: introduction, Norman Long
- from paradigm lost to paradigm regained? The case for an actor-oriented sociology of development, Norman Long. Part 2 The research process: a research journey - on actors, concepts and the text, Pieter de Vries
- plunging into the garlic - methodological issues and challenges, Gabriel Torres
- the engagement of researcher and local actors in the construction of case studies and research themes - exploring methods of restudy, Han Seur. Part 3 New perspectives on old problems
- goods, knowledge and beer - the methodological significance of situational analysis and discourse, Andrew Long
- identity, networks and space - new dimensions in the study of small-scale enterprise and commoditization, Gerard Verschoor
- local organization as organizing practices - the Mexican "ejido" revisited, Monique Nuijten. Part 4 Theoretical windows on development intervention: the dynamics of knowledge interfaces between bureaucrats and peasants, Alberto Arce and Norman Long
- the poverty of practice - gender, power and intervention from an actor-oriented perspective, Magdalena Villarreal
- conclusion, Norman Long.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415072069
Description
This book spells out the theoretical, methodological and practical implications of an actor-orientated approach to development research. The book concentrates upon issues relating to the study of change and intervention, and explores issues that are of general sociological significance for resolving central problems such as the relationship between agency and structure, micro and macro phenomena, and theory and practice.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 An actor-oriented paradigm: introduction, Norman Long
- from paradigm lost to paradism regained? the case for an actor-oriented sociology of development, Norman Long. Part 2 The research process: a research journey
- on actors, concepts and the text, Pieter de Vries
- plunging into the garlic
- methodological issues and challenges, Gabriel Torres
- the engagement of researcher and local actors in the construction of case studies and research themes - exploring methods of restudy, Van Seur. Part 3 New perspectives on old problems: goods, knowledge and beer - the methodological significance of situational analysis and discourse, Andrew Long
- identity, networks and space - new dimensions in the study of small-scale enterprise and commoditization, Gerard Verschoor
- local organization as organizing practices - the Mexican "ejido" revisited, Monique Nuijten. Part 4 Theoretical windows on development intervention
- the dynamics of knowledge interfaces between bureaucrats and peasants, Alberto Arce and Norman Long
- the poverty of practice - gender, power and intervention from an actor-oriented perspective, Magdalena Villarreal
- conclusion, Norman Long.
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