1. Families, Welfare Institutions and Economic Development: Chile and Sweden in Comparative Perspective
- Author:
- J. Samuel Valenzuela
- Publication Date:
- 01-2011
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Abstract:
- Since the 1960s, the sociology of development has drawn its explanations for the inadequate development of Latin American countries from culturalist paradigms, such as modernization theory, or macro-structural ones, like the dependency perspective. Setting such perspectives aside, this paper seeks to reinvigorate a sociological focus on development by arguing that it requires “social fundamentals”—and not only the economic and political ones that have taken center stage in recent discussions of this topic. Such social fundamentals have to do primarily with the synergies that are generated between properly designed welfare institutions and the characteristics of a nation's families.
- Topic:
- Development and Sociology
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Latin America, Sweden, and Chile