Conference paper

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Rade Kalanj ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

The concept of sustainable development, created for the environmental topics purposes, is discussed in the context of sociology of development. The sociological discipline has formed two cycles: one covering the period from the beginning of the seventies and the other covering the seventies and the eighties. In the first cycle prevailing are economic, social, politic and anthropologic topics, while in the other there arises the environment dimension of the development. In the first cycle the development is seen as sharp dichotomy, e.g between the North/South, developed/underdeveloped, while in the other one the question is considered on a more global level, the important place being given to the relationship with nature, and the topic of development has been taking on the characteristics of consensus. The relation between the sociology of development and the concept of sustainable development is a double one: the sociology is accepting it as a rational model of harmonising their developmental interests, but, at the same time, it gives warning of the fact that behind the model there are hidden un-surmounted, even worsened, differences between the developed and underdeveloped parts of the world, between the techno-economical rationality and environmental dimensioning of the development.

Keywords

culture of consensus; endogenous development; exogenous development,; modern; sociology of the development; sustainable development; traditional

Hrčak ID:

139068

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139068

Publication date:

15.7.1993.

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