Reading List on Sociology of Development
General Perspectives on Development
Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time,
Beacon Press, Boston, MA.
Rostow, Walt W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK (Chapter 1, 2).
Cardoso, Fernando Enriqueand Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America,
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Germani, Gino. 1981. The Sociology of Modernization: Studies on Its Historical and Theoretical Aspects
with Special Regard to the Latin American Case, Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ.
Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: the Making and Unmaking of the Third World,
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY.
Long, Norman. 2001. Development Sociology: Actor Perspectives. Routledge, London and New York.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World-System Analysis: An Introduction, Duke University Press, Durham,
NC.
Wood, Charles H. and Bryan R. Roberts. 2004. Rethinking Development in Latin America, Pennsylvania
State University Press, University Park, PA.
Globalization and Neoliberalism
Harvey, David. 1990. The Condition of Post-Modernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change,
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 1999. Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies, Oxford University
Press.
Guillen, Mauro F. 2000. “Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key
Debates in the Social Science Literature”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2001, 27:235–60.
Stiglitz, Joseph. 2002. Globalization and Its Discontents, W.W. Norton & Company, New York and
London.
Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Sassen, Saskia. 2007. A Sociology of Globalization, W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London.
Labor Market
Portes, Alejandro. 1985. “Latin American Class Structures: Their Composition and Change during the
Last Decades”, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 20, 1985(3), 7-39.
Portes, Alejandro, Manuel Castells and Lauren A. Benton. 1989. The Informal Economy: Studies in
Advanced and Less Developed Countries, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.
Portes, Alejandro and Richard Schauffler. 1993. “Competing Perspectives on the Latin American
Informal Sector”, Population and Development Review, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 33-60.
Roberts, Bryan. 1994. “Informal Economy and Family Strategies”, International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research, 18(1): 6-24.
Kaztman, Ruben and Guillermo Wormald. 2002. Trabajo y Ciudadanía: Los Cambiantes Rostros de la
Integración y Exclusión Social en Cuatro Áreas Metropolitanas de América Latina.
Abel Valenzuela, Jr. 2003. “Day Labor Work”, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 29: 307-333.
Handel, Michael J. 2003. “Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2003,
29:135–65.
Portes, Alejandro and Kelly Hoffman. 2003. “Latin American Class Structures: Their Composition and
Change during the Neoliberal Era”, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, February 2003.
Powell, Walter W. and Kaisa Snellman. 2004. “The Knowledge Economy”, Annual Review of Sociology,
Vol. 30: 199-220.
Shuey, Kim M. and Angela M. O'Rand. 2004. “New Risks for Workers: Pensions, Labor Markets, and
Gender”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2004. Vol. 30: 453-477.
Tokman, Víctor E. 2007. “The Informal Economy, Insecurity and Social Cohesion in Latin America”,
International Labour Review, Vol. 146 (2007), No. 1–2.
Collins, Jane L. and Victoria Mayer. 2010. Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom
in the Low-Wage Labor Market, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.
Hollister, Matissa. 2011. “Employment Stability in the U.S. Labor Market: Rhetoric versus Reality”,
Annual Review of Sociology, 2011, Vol. 37: 305-324.
State and Development
Weber, Max. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (chapter on Bureaucracy), Oxford University
Press, New York, NY.
Eckstein, Susan. 1977. The Poverty of Revolution: the State and the Urban Poor in Mexico, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Auyero, Javier. 2001. Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita, Duke
University Press, Durham and London.
Lange, Matthew and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. 2005. States and Development: Historical Antecedents of
Stagnation and Advance, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY.
Wacquant, Loic. 2009. Punishing the Poor, Duke University Press, Durham and London.
Auyero, Javier. 2012. Patients of the State: the Politics of Waiting in Argentina, Duke University Press,
Durham and London.
Citizenship and Social Policy
Marshall, Thomas H. 1949. Citizenship and Social Class.
Mann, Michael. 1987. “Ruling Class and Citizenship”, Sociology, 21(3):339-354.
Turner, Bryan S. 1990. “Outline of a Theory of Citizenship”, Sociology, 24(2):189-217.
Esping-Anderson, Gosta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton University Press,
Princeton.
Caldeira, Teresa. 2000. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation and Citizenship in Sao Paulo, University of
California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA.
Gough, Ian, Geof Wood, Pip Bevan and Peter Davis. 2003. Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia,
Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK.
Babb, Sarah. 2005. “The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current
Debates”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2005(31):199–222.
Brady, David, Jason Beckfield and Martin Selebi-Kaiser. 2005. “Economic Globalization and the
Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975-2001”, American Sociological Review, 70:921-948.
Mesa-Lago, Carmelo. 2007. “Social Security in Latin America Pension and Health Care Reforms in the
Last Quarter Century”, Latin American Research Review, Volume 42, Number 2, 2007, pp. 181-201.
Sojo, Ana. 2007. “Evolution of the Link between Selective Anti-Poverty Policies and Social Sectors
Policies”, CEPAL Review, 91, April 2007, pp.111-132.
Danziger, Sandra K. 2010. “The Decline of Cash Welfare and Implications for Social Policy and
Poverty”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2010(36):523–45.
Roberts, Bryan. 2012. “From Universalism to Targeting and Back Again: CCTs and the Curious
Development of Social Citizenship”, in Mercedez Gonzalez de la Rocha and Agustin Escobar (2012)
Pobreza, Transferencias Condicionadas y Sociedad, pp. 341-360.
Poverty, Marginality, Social Exclusion and Inequality
Lewis, Oscar. 1959. Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty, Basic Books, New
York, NY.
Simmel, Georg. 1971 [1908]. “The Poor”, in Georg Simmel, On Individuality and Social Forms, ed.
Donald Levine, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 150-178.
Perlman, Janice E. 1976. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro,
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
Wilson, William Julius. 1990. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public
Policy, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
González de la Rocha, Mercedes. 1994. The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Mexican
City, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1999. The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society. Stanford
University Press, Stanford, CA.
O’Connor, Alice. 2000. “Poverty Research and Policy for the Post-Welfare Era”, Annual Review of
Sociology, 2000(26):547–62.
González de la Rocha, Mercedes. 2001. “From the Resources of Poverty to the Poverty of Resources?
The Erosion of a Survival Model”, Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 28, No. 4, “Mexico in the 1990s:
Economic Crisis, Social Polarization, and Class Struggle”, Part 2 (Jul., 2001), pp. 72-100.
Gonzalez de La Rocha, Mercedes et al. 2004. “From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty"
of Today: A LARR Research Forum”, Latin American Research Review, Volume 39, Number 1, 2004.
González de la Rocha, Mercedes. 2006. “Vanishing Assets: Cumulative Disadvantage among the Urban
Poor”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 606, “Chronicle of a Myth
Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin America” (Jul., 2006), pp. 68-94.
Grusky, David B. and Ravi Kanbur. 2006. Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Newman, Katherin S. and Rebekah Peeples Massengill. 2006. “The Texture of Hardship: Qualitative
Sociology of Poverty, 1995–2005”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2006(32):423–46.
Neckerman, Kathryn M. and Florencia Torche. 2007. “Inequality: Causes and Consequences”, Annual
Review of Sociology, 2007, Vol. 33: 335-357.
Grusky, David. 2008. Social Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective,
Westview Press, Boulder and Oxford.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2008. “A Talent for Life: Reflections on Human Vulnerability and Resilience”,
Ethnos, vol. 73(1), March 2008, pp. 25–56.
Small, Mario Luis, David Harding and Michele Lamont. 2010. “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty”,
Special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 2010, 629: 627.
McCall, Leslie and Christine Percheski. 2010. “Income Inequality: New Trends and Research
Directions”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2010, Vol. 36: 329-347.
Desmond, Matthew. 2011. “Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor”, American Journal of Sociology, Vol.
117, No. 5 (March 2012), pp. 1295-1335.
Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, Benjamin Sosnaud and Laura Tach. 2012. “Economic Insecurity and
Social Stratification”, Annual Review of Sociology, 2012(38):341–59.