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Title: | African Rural Development Planning and the Conceptions of the 'Human Factor' |
Author: | Apthorpe, Raymond |
Year: | 1970 |
Periodical: | Journal of Development Studies |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 140-151 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | agricultural development Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00220387008421340 |
Abstract: | It must be asked whether the social science achievement in African studies that dates from the period of colonization (now more than a generation ago) is as pertinent today as it was then to public policy: what kind of rethinking is needed before the results of applied social science carried out under quite different auspices could, if at all, be considered to be useful now - and to whom? Aim is to pose some of the questions relevant for this rethinking: 1. What were the main assumptions of applied social sciences in African studies in the colonial period that might be less pertinent now? 2. Do the assumptions described relate more to the a priori notions of social scientists than other social facts? 3. Are contemporary questions about social change different from those into which applied social science research inquired in the colonial period? Is the social science achievement of that time of much direct use today? Notes, ref., summary. |