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Social Sciences and the Next Development Agenda
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Ever since their modernr einvention, the social sciences have had to deal with at least four aspects of change. The first and most basic of these has been the process of biological and social reproduction. The second has been the concern over what Adam Smith called the “wealth of nations”. The third has been the question of the distribution of such wealth and its translation into life chances of individuals and different social categories. The fourth has stemmed from the fact that progress has always been Janus-faced, in a sense something of a Faustian bargain, whose “creative destruction” has brought forth both the positive and darker sides of a disruptive process in terms of the security of people’s livelihoods, and the sense of their bearings, inducing societies to seek ways of protecting individuals or communities from the ravages of change and attaining some modicum of social peace. Successful management of social change has taken on all these tasks, although the weight given to each of them has differed between countries and, within each country, from period to period.
Thandika Mkandawire - Personal Name
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Social Science
English
2007
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