Week 3 - Social Development Theory / Samantha Burton

This week´s reading tackles the Social Development Theory. It goes through topics such as its terminology, the role of pioneering individuals in a “awakening” of a society based on unconscious knowledge (E.g. famous figures like Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs, both changed the way we interact with each other and technology), the process of organization essential to the improvement of a society (E.g. when countries got together to sign the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights), the importance of education in the process of development and so on.

It is interesting to read about how development and its primary source changed throughout time. If in the past “development” meant just going from a survival state into a predator one, the human race has, throughout the years, perfected the use of knowledge to its favor (many times in detriment to the environment) turning it not a mere tribal/agrarian/feudal-like form of society but a complex one with equally complex issues.

My question after this reading is: based on the concepts of natural and planned of development, can a global issue like the Covid-19 pandemic be a booster for new shifts in development of our societies as a whole? To which kind of development does it fall under?

Samantha Burton

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