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2.Week 2-3: What is development?
These sessions will critically review development theories that include modernization theory, dependency, neo-liberalism, and human development, and endogenous development model. We will also discuss development policies and practices derived from these theoretical perspectives.
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3.Week 4-6: Development as social change
These session will discuss how individuals and a society are interrelated, and how individuals are enabled and constrained by social structure using sociological theories of agency and structure. We will also study sociological conceptualization of culture, socialization, groups and organization, gender, ethnicity, religion that structure relationships between individuals and a society and enable and constrain individual capabilities and opportunities in developing countries.
Each society has an endogenous path of development by which individuals can enhance relationship with one another, and constitute a better society so that individuals can acquire knowledge, skills, resources, and opportunities to have better and decent lives. This session will discuss how endogenous development can be promoted by building on sociological theories discussed in this session.
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4.Week 7: Development Economic Sociology
The session will study sociological analyses of economic phenomena in developing countries since developing economies have aspects that can be usefully explained by sociological models. The session will focus on poverty issues and will study how the poor can participate in capitalism where they can actively and productively participate in market and take advantage of market opportunities.
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5.Week 8: Discussing Project proposal
This course requires students to work on project proposals. These proposals can be for research or practical development activities, using theoretical frameworks covered in the course. This session will critically review each of student projects.
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6.Week 9: Development Organizations
This session will study different types of development organizations that include NGOs (non-government organization), Government agencies, international organizations, and private corporations. We will understand them as both agencies and structure as exercising agencies differently and constituting parts of structures for people and government of developing countries, and discuss how they can help enhancing relationship between individuals and society and effectively promote endogenous development where individuals are more capacitated to realize their potentials with necessary resources and have decent lives.
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7.Week 10: Case analysis 1. NGO
NGOs are said to be close to people in developing countries, and good at incorporating local initiatives and capabilities, and promoting endogenous development. This session will study cases of development projects assisted by NGOs, using the theoretical framework covered in this course to understand their strength and limitations, and implications for other development organizations.
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8.Week 11: Case analysis 2. Social Enterprise
Social enterprise can be defined as systemic transformation of social structures. This session will analyze cases of social enterprises and discuss how it better connects individuals and society to sustainably enhance capabilities and opportunities for individuals in developing countries.
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9.Week 12: Case Analysis 3. Private Corporations
In the conventional circle of development studies, private corporations are understood as exploiters of developing societies. Recently, however, many private corporations have begun to understand that development can be good for their business: Poor people in developing countries can be important consumers if they have decent income, and can be good workers for their products if they are properly trained. This session will study cases of development projects assisted by private corporations in order to understand how they can actualize actualizes “inclusive capitalism” by which the poor can have not only necessary skills and knowledge, but also economic opportunities and to have decent income and lives.
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10.Week 13: Case Analysis 4. Official Development Assistance
ODA projects has been criticized as been implement projects designed by expatriate experts without taking into account local conditions that are pre-requisite to ensure sustainability of outcomes of international developments. They now emphasize capacity development that emphasizes interventions based on locally existing capacities. This session will analyzes cases of projects funded and implemented by government and international agencies, using theoretical frameworks to figure out how they can be enhanced.
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11.Week 14: Project presentations
Presentations of project proposals by students and discussion
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