TY - JOUR
T1 - Sociological reconceptualization of social development
T2 - With empirical evidence from Surakarta city, Indonesia
AU - Wirutomo, Paulus
PY - 2014/5/30
Y1 - 2014/5/30
N2 - After more than six decades, the growth-oriented development strategy has failed to develop people's essential well-being, social equality and better quality of socio-cultural life. United Nations called it: jobless, ruthless, rootless, voiceless, and futureless growth (UNDP, 1997). Recently, several new development approaches has been introduced, such as People-Centered Development, MDGs, Human Development, but those approaches are proposing more for the enhancement of some "social sectors", rather than being oriented into developing a "good society". Herewith, in this article a more sociological conceptualization of social development is introduced by emphasizing that developing human being has to be done through developing the basic elements of social life, namely structure, culture and process of the society. The purpose of this paper is to propose and discuss the new and the more sociological concept of social development. An action research has been conducted to explore some empirical evidence of social development practices implemented in Surakarta city as an illustration.
AB - After more than six decades, the growth-oriented development strategy has failed to develop people's essential well-being, social equality and better quality of socio-cultural life. United Nations called it: jobless, ruthless, rootless, voiceless, and futureless growth (UNDP, 1997). Recently, several new development approaches has been introduced, such as People-Centered Development, MDGs, Human Development, but those approaches are proposing more for the enhancement of some "social sectors", rather than being oriented into developing a "good society". Herewith, in this article a more sociological conceptualization of social development is introduced by emphasizing that developing human being has to be done through developing the basic elements of social life, namely structure, culture and process of the society. The purpose of this paper is to propose and discuss the new and the more sociological concept of social development. An action research has been conducted to explore some empirical evidence of social development practices implemented in Surakarta city as an illustration.
KW - Culture
KW - Informal sector
KW - Process
KW - Social development
KW - Sociology
KW - Structure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84901927158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5539/ass.v10n11p283
DO - 10.5539/ass.v10n11p283
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901927158
VL - 10
SP - 283
EP - 293
JO - Asian Social Science
JF - Asian Social Science
SN - 1911-2017
IS - 11
ER -