A "SCALE" APPROACH TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Norman O. Simpkins

No 283631, 1977 AAEA-WAEA Joint Meeting, July 31-August 3, San Diego, California from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: When one looks into the literature on community development one finds a plethora of definitions. For example, Biddle and Biddle list seventeen different definitions, some of which seem to contradict others. Community development is also frequently treated as virtually synonymous with such terms as modernization, urbanization, industrialization, etc . As to theories of development, each social science discipline has tended to go its own way with the result that there is no over~all theory, only partial theories. Anthropologists tend to stress anthropological variables (Goodenough); economists stress mostly economic variables (Rostow); political scientists stress primarily political variables (Apter); sociologists stress sociological variables (Loomis); and psychologists focus on psychological variables (McClelland).

Keywords: Public; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 1977-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/283631/files/19-00105AAEA_0652.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aaea77:283631

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.283631

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 1977 AAEA-WAEA Joint Meeting, July 31-August 3, San Diego, California from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().