Title

Science and Development

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Abstract

Aimed at a contemporary view of science and development that takes into account changes brought about by information and communication technologies, this article examines why low-income countries are in pursuit of the "Western way of knowing" known as science. Toward this aim, several perspectives are reviewed: modernization, dependency and world systems, neoinstitutional, global systems, postcolonialism, and reagency. The intent is to highlight how each casts the nature of science and its relation to the project of development.

First Page

150

Last Page

155

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.85020-5

Publication Date

3-26-2015

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