WK 13.2 Social Development and Ethnic Groups

According to the reading about social development and ethnic groups, no country is homogeneous in terms of race, religion, language, script, customs, ideas and ways of life. Society is the collectivities of people demarcated from other collectivities. Since the new objective of social development calls for a shift in emphasis from the individual to larger collectivities, the role of ethnic group in social development has been gaining momentum. In this reading, the author critically examines the role of ethnic groups in social development in the third world countries in general and South Asian countries in particular. The concept of social development is more comprehensive than economic development. Social development is possible only when the group mobilization and action. Ethnic solidarity is only one among many possible forms of collective actions, that have strong implication for ethnic resurgence in modern society. Furthermore, social developement objectives are not always clear, or are not always in touch with the reality of the daily lives of people. The current debate on social development objectives emphasized several significant dimensions. 

What is new to me is that concept of “social development” was initially used almost synonymously with social evolution. The major stages in the evolution of human society, identified in a macro-sociological perspective, presented a profile of social development. However, in more recent discussion the notion of social development has been detached from the evolutionary hypothesis and has focused on the questions of the satisfaction of human needs and improvement in the quality of life. 

It has been observed and amply documented that economic development while it is undeniably necessary can also lead to certain undesirable consequences. Therefore, it has to be geared to specific social objectives 

Hanane Ben Abdeslam

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