Sociology and Space, No. 3, 1964.
Original scientific paper
THE SOCIOLOGY OF UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES
Cvetko Kostić
Abstract
In this paper the author considers the subject, the method and the application
of the sociology of underdeveloped countries.
The subject is defined as social statics and social dynamics of societies of
underdeveloped countries. Thč social statics includes: population, forms of production,
forms of landownership, division of labour and social system. Under these
categories all characteristics of their backwardness can be classified (high birth
and death rate, small national income, low labour productivity, low production
and mechanical energy consumption, strong patriarchal ties in families and tribes
etc). During the last period these societies have been strongly influenced by the
processes of urbanization and industrialization. These processes are the basis of
thier social dynamics and they cause deep changes in the society. Old structures
are changing and new ones create. These processes are accompanied by the exodus
from villages and formation of »villa miseria« in cities.
Meetings of sociologists from different countries, who participated in research
work in underdeveloped countries, are very important for the study of
methods and applications of this branch of sociology. Among such meetings the
best known were held in Abidjan for the regions of »black Africa«, in Santiago
de Chile for the Regions of Latin America and in Saigon for the regions of
southeast Asia. Also the author reviewed many questionnaires which were agreed
upon at those meetings.
In the concluding part of this article the perspective of development of
underdeveloped countries is treated. In this connection the author points out
Marx words that »the country industrially more developed shows to the industrially
less developed country the picture of its own future.«
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121277
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Publication date:
7.1.1964.
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