The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development

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University of Chicago Press, 15‏/09‏/1984 - 409 من الصفحات
A major, eclectic work of extraordinary scope and unprecedented vision, The Three Worlds is much more than a study of the contemporary Third World. It examines the constituents of development—cultural as well as political and economic—throughout the world from prehistory to the present.

Peter Worsley first considers existing theories of development, synthesizing the Marxist approach with that of social anthropologists and identifying culture—in the sense of a shared set of values—as the key element missing in more traditional approaches to the sociology of development. Worsley then examines successive forms of rural organization, develops a new definition of the urban poor, considers the relation of ethnicity and nationalism to social class and to each other, and, finally, discusses the nature of the three worlds implied in the term Third World.
 

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I Prolegomena
1
II The Undoing of the Peasantry
61
IV Ethnicity and Nationalism
235
V One World or Three?
296
The Urban Poor in the Workshop of the World
345
Notes
349
Bibliography
373
Index
395
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Peter Worsley is professor of sociology at Manchester University and president of the British Sociological Association. He is the author of The Trumpet Shall Sound, editor of Introducing Sociology and Modern Sociology, and has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and other books.

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