Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2016

Development—A sociological Perspective

Charanjit Kaur

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 Development is a function of society’s capacity to organize human energies and productive resources to respond to opportunities and challenges. Scholars often trace the emergence of higher, more complex, more productive levels of social organization through the stages of nomadic hunting, rural agrarian, urban, commercial, industrial and post industrial societies. And in the process try to examine ways by which new activities were introduced by pioneers, imitated, resisted, accepted, organized, institutionalized and assimilated into a culture. The evolution of social institutions acts as a powerful stimulus for development by increasing the frequency, intensity and efficiency of social interactions. This evolution has moved through three successive but overlapping stages of development–physical, vital and mental. Summary of the paper One of the early concerns of anthropologists and sociologists was to examine the development and progress of human society from evolutionary perspective. The grand ideas of Morgan, Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber and many others are still considered for examining the journey of human society through various stages of development and progress. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the philosophy of history, which helped formulate the general ideas of progress, became very important especially through the writings of Hegel and Saint–Simon who, later on, left their imprint on the work of Augste Comte , Karl Marx and others

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Charanjit Kaur Development-a Sociological Perspective International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 2 February 2016

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