SOCI 254 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Chloroquine, Alexis De Tocqueville, Political Philosophy
30 Oct 2016
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The contrast between what great things human beings can achieve and what limited lives most women and men end up living is truly remarkable - amartya sen. The objective of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives - mahbub ul haq. Development as modernization (changes in social, political and psychological processes) Development is not purely an economic phenomenon but rather a multi-dimensional process involving reorganization and reorientation of entire economic and social system. Development is process of improving the quality of all human lives with three equally important aspects. Need to view development in historical perspective as sequence of dynamic events-explore roots. Basically gives us the whole perspective on what happened in development. Colonialism s one of the key variables to explain different economic and political conditions in the contemporary world.
