Subject(s): Economic Development -- Social Conditions -- Decolonization -- colonialism -- Nature of social theorizing : Ernest Gellner's theorizing, Peter Worsley's theorizing -- Classical social theory : Rise of a social science of humankind, Adam smith and spontaneous order of marketplace, Marx and dialectics of historical change, Durkheim and evolution of division of labour, transitional world of weber, division of intellectual labour of the short twentieth century -- Contemporary theories of development : Legacies of colonial era- structures, institutions and images, decolonization, cold war and the construction of modernization theory, development experience of Latin America structuralism and dependency theory, pursuit of effective nationstatehood- work of institutionalist development theorists, Mydalian institutionalism, critical work of Marxist development theory, assertion of third world solidarity- global development approaches, affirmation of role of market- metropolitan neoliberalism in 1980s -- New analyses of complex change : Global system interdependence- new structural analyses of the dynamics of industrial capitalism, agent centred analyses of the diversity of forms of life, formal character of a nw general approach to development, dependency theory, new substantive focus- elucidating the dynamics of complex change