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Summer 2022
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Distinguishing between Old and New Developmental Idealism and among Beliefs about Correlation, Causation, and Expectations: Beliefs about Family Change and Development in Turkey
Serap Kavas, Arland Thornton
Using data from a national survey of urban Turks, we examine whether people report an understanding and acceptance of developmental idealism (DI) messages about the relationship between development and family characteristics. We examine two ...
Economic Dependency and Rural Exclusion: Explaining the Global Digital Divide, 1995 to 2014
Aarushi Bhandari, Sam Shirazi
The global digital divide is a pressing contemporary form of inequality, especially considering the increased salience of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the post-pandemic world. Despite unequal rates of expansion across the ...
Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Development Surge: The Unintended Local Impacts of Reconstruction
Tracy Fehr
This article expands the sociology of development literature by unpacking how the influx of hundreds of NGOs and INGOs following Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes operated as an unprecedented “post-disaster development surge.” Reframing reconstruction as ...
Fragmenting Urban Movements: Political Parties and Popular Resistance in Johannesburg’s Informal Settlements
Marcel Paret
How do political parties shape urban movements in developing countries? This paper examines struggles for urban inclusion in two informal settlements within Johannesburg: Thembelihle and Motsoaledi. I argue that the ruling party, the African ...
Autopsy of an International Alternative Break: Student Volunteers and the New Washington Consensus
Maya FarrHenderson, Amy A. Quark
International volunteering has become a popular way for students to travel, engage in rewarding service, and build credentials of global citizenship for a competitive job market. In this context, we explore a puzzling phenomenon: why would a group ...
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Sociology of Development is an international journal addressing issues of development, broadly considered. With basic as well as policy-oriented research, topics explored include economic development and well-being, gender, health, inequality, poverty, environment and sustainability, political economy, conflict, social movements, and more.

eISSN: 2374-538X

Published Quarterly – March, June, September, December

Editors: Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College and Jeffrey Kentor, Wayne State University

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