..., and younger people. Differences by marital status and gender were small or nil. developmental idealism marriage United States development family We use 44 items appearing across the three waves that measured DI beliefs and attitudes about nine marriage attributes: early marriage (marital timing...

... to developmental benefit may be more upwardly mobile and reinforce limits on solidarity. Most workers come into the industry to make a difference, but the institutional structure—though full of potential—is too often constrained by political priorities which shoulder development workers with a double standard...

...Skye Niles Over the past two decades, the range of efforts to address global poverty and development has expanded dramatically. Yet, many of these approaches foreground market-based development and extend harmful neoliberal practices. Scholars have critiqued these practices for expanding capitalism...

... to end a seemingly successful international volunteer program legitimized by affirmation from their community partner in the global South, their peers, and their institution? Research has shown that international volunteering organizations, and development organizations more broadly, are resilient, even...

...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 development renders visible the linkages...

... in some important areas of development and welfare provision. Based on this analysis, I propose directions for future research on the developmental outcome of revolutions. According to Amartya Sen (1999 , 2001 ), development should be assessed by how it expands peoples’ capacities and freedoms to do...

...Samuel Cohn Coercive capitalism is development based on the use of force to dispossess either land or labor. Early macrosociologists, both functionalist and conflict-oriented, believed that feudal systems were based on the use of force but that capitalism is based on coercion-free free markets...

... two-way fixed effects regression models and a three-way interaction to test whether integration into the global economy, measured as imports (% of GDP), affects male and female smoking prevalence across country income groups (developed vs. less developed nations) and time from 2000 to 2015. We observe...

... programs, such as those implemented by USAID, and their emphasis on free market economic policies. In many middle-income countries, though, IFIs and U.S. development agencies do not maintain economic development programs. If the U.S. state cannot promote free market policies through IFIs and its bilateral...

... process, and development was not autocentric. The same would apply to the export of American or Egyptian cotton to Britain. However, where agriculture commodities were consumed locally, which was more generally the case, nations retained more control over their developmental processes. The data indicate...

... in Rural Uganda.” Journal of World-Systems Research 23 ( 2 ): 326 – 52 . doi: 10.5195/jwsr.2017.668 . Beeson , Mark , and Hung Hung Pham . 2012 . “Developmentalism with Vietnamese Characteristics: The Persistence of State-Led Development in East Asia.” Journal of Contemporary Asia...

... article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions . 2019 women labor force state feminism feminist advocacy development political economy institutions Tunisia's secular republican...

...Joseph M. Simpson; Riley E. Dunlap; Andrew S. Fullerton The world is facing a crisis of global warming due to the release of CO 2 and other greenhouse gasses by human activities. Many scholars and stakeholders argue that information and communication technology (ICT) development will mitigate CO 2...

...Rukmalie Jayakody Developmental idealism is a powerful cultural model specifying what development is, describing how it can be achieved, and framing it as desirable and good. Television is a key mechanism hypothesized to spread developmental idealism messages to remote areas that have previously...

...Keera Allendorf; Arland Thornton In this introduction, we offer an overview of developmental idealism (DI) theory and the contributions of this special issue. DI is a collection of values and beliefs about socioeconomic development and its causal links to other elements of societies. Within DI...

... practice. China is more than an outlier within the global field of development and instead should be viewed as pursuing its own form of development, what I call “developmental pragmatism.” As this case study illustrates, this developmental pragmatism often turns on synergies between the business-focused...

... assumptions and constructs in fruitful new ways. Notable recent literature reviews have taken up the issue of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, comparative healthcare systems, and the sociology of development. However, this review is the first to outline the contours of a coherent sociology of global health...

...Shiri Noy Sociologists have much to contribute to the study of global health and development. Our discipline's fundamental concerns with power and inequality uniquely position us to leverage theoretical, conceptual, substantive, and empirical insights for the understanding of engines, outcomes...

...Tom VanHeuvelen; Jane S. VanHeuvelen This research examines how gender and economic development interrelate to predict healthy eating behaviors, and how all three interrelate to predict health outcomes. The consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables has been identified by international NGOS...

... developmental goal: to achieve the great “structural transition,” when the share of labor working in manufacturing exceeded that in agriculture ( Lewis 1954 ). The 1980s gave rise to a new development era across the world, widely referred to as “market-based capitalism” or neoliberalism. This era, in turn...