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In Part One we shall be concentrating on development as an autonomous process of societal growth and change. When viewed in such narrow terms development comes to be synonymous with ‘evolution’. For the time being we shall not bother with the planned management of this process of societal growth and change; historically this is a relatively new phenomenon and we shall only turn to it in Part Three. Nor shall we as yet consider the specific historical context in which the developments of certain concrete societies have been fostered and in which the developments of others have been arrested and retarded. That will be the subject of Part Two. My first concern is with the presentation of an abstract and formal paradigm for the study of societal evolution.
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Hoogvelt, A.M.M. (1978). Evolutionary and Neo-evolutionary Perspectives. In: The Sociology of Developing Societies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04190-9_2
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