Rethinking Development In Latin America

by Wood, Charles H.; Roberts, Bryan R.

• ISBN13: 9780271025155
• ISBN10: 0271025158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

Understanding development in Latin America today requires both an awareness of the major political and economic changes that have produced a new agenda for social policy in the region and an appreciation of the need to devise better conceptual and methodological tools for analyzing the social impacts of these changes. Using as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin America in the period 1960-80, this volume contributes to "rethinking development" by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms and by assessing the new directions of research that have emerged in their place. Following the editors' overview of the new conceptual and social agendas in their Introduction, the book proceeds with a review of previous broad conceptual approaches by Alejandro Portes, who emphasizes by contrast the advantages of newer "middle-range" theories. Subsequent chapters focus on changes in different arenas and the concepts and methods used to interpret them: "Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy"; "Citizenship, Politics, and the State"; "Work, Families, and Reproduction"; and "Urban Settlements, Marginality, and Social Exclusion."

Table of Contents

List of Acronyms	ix
List of Figures and Tables	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction: Rethinking Development in Latin America	1	(24)
BRYAN R. ROBERTS AND CHARLES H. WOOD
Part I: Sociology in the Hemisphere: Old Issues and New Directions	25	(28)
1 Sociology in the Hemisphere: Past Convergencies and a New Middle-Range Agenda	27	(28)
ALEJANDRO PORTES
Part II: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy	53	(60)
2 The Unbearable Lightness of Neoliberalism	55	(24)
OSVALDO SUNKEL
3 Social Science and Academic Sociology in Brazil	79	(36)
VILMAR E. PARIA
Part III: Citizenship, Politics, and the State	113	(90)
4 Toward a Political Sociology of Social Mobilization in Latin America	115	(22)
JOE FOWERAKER
5 Citizenship, Rights, and Social Policy	137	(22)
BRYAN R. ROBERTS
6 The State of the State in Latin American Sociology	159	(24)
DIANE E. DAVIS
7 Human Rights and the Memory of Political Violence and Repression: Constructing a New Field in Social Science	183	(22)
ELIZABETH JELIN
Part IV: Work, Families, and Reproduction	203	(66)
8 Exclusion and Employability: The New Labor Dynamics in Latin America	205	(28)
JUAN PABLO PÉREZ SÁINZ
9 Families in Transition	233	(16)
MARIAN ARIZA AND ORLANDINA DE OLIVEIRA
10 Population and Development: Then and Now	249	(20)
JOSEPH E. POTTER AND RODOLFO A. TUIRÁN GUTIÉRREZ
Part V: Urban Settlements, Marginality, and Social Exclusion	269	(44)
11 The Lack of "Cursive Thinking" Within Social Theory and Public Policy: Four Decades of Marginality and Rationality in the So-Called Slum	271	(26)
PETER M. WARD
12 Social Exclusion	297	(16)
CHARLES H. WOOD
References	313	(44)
Contributors	357	(6)
Index	363