開発社会学と後発的発展の問題

国際開発論

抄録

The theoretical bases of sociology of development are critically discussed today. This sociology is usually based on modernization theory which has distilled exclusively from the historical experience of modernization process in the West.
The character of the late-starting development process is greatly different from the process of Europe, and the differences in the process persist in differences in structure of society. Ronald Dore discusses the “late development effect.” “The industrially more developed country shows the less developed only the image of its own future.” Even for Marxists it is now absurd.
Japan has been highly in debt in the importation of Western theories in the field of social sciences, and now she is also among the main importers of the Third World theories. It is about time for Japanese researchers to try to construct their own theories based on her own experience as the early late-developer. In this perspective I have tried to consider the problems of late development.