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This essay examines the sociology of development currently being produced in the developed countries, especially the United States, for export to and use in the underdeveloped countries. On critical examination, this new sociology of development is found to be empirically invalid when confronted with reality, theoretically inadequate in terms of its own classical social scientific standards, and policy-wise ineffective for pursuing its supposed intentions of promoting the development of the underdeveloped countries. Furthermore, the inadequacy grows along with the development of the society that produces it. Like the underdeveloped society to which it is applied, this sociology is becoming increasingly underdeveloped.
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Chew, S.C., Lauderdale, P. (2010). Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology. In: Chew, S.C., Lauderdale, P. (eds) Theory and Methodology of World Development. The Evolutionary Processes in World Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230108509_2
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