Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 3)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 3)

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ABSTRACT
This thesis outlines the main features of empiricist and
positivist epistemology and looks at the critique of this
position developed by conventionalist philosophers of
science. It then attempts to present the basis of an
alternative realist epistemology. This realist alternative is
then used as a means of laying down a set of methodological
protocols for reinterpreting the anti-empiricist debate in
development theory over "the articulation of modes of
production". This debate was concerned with producing an
alternative paradigm to explain the causes of poverty and
underdevelopment in such @ way that the internal
determinations of poverty in nation-states would be part of
the explanatory structure, rather than treating poverty and
underdevelopment as a phenomenon which was essentially
generated through relationships of exploitation between the
countries of the "developed" and Third World. Having outlined
the basic concepts of this debate in a manner which is
compatible with the research protocols of methodological
realism, the concepts — social formation, modes of production
and articulation - are applied to the concrete context of
peasant relations of production in the north Jordan Valley of
the Occupied West Bank/the Central Highlands of Palestine.
The last section considers some of the major strategic models
designed to resolve the problem of Third World poverty and
underdevelopment, viz. Community Development, the Green
Revolution and Basic Needs. Finally, a radical democratic
approach to development intervention is suggested as a
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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