Modern and contemporary trends in development sociology : reference paper

الملخص EN

This paper presents the most salient contemporary and modern trends in development sociology.

It aims at de fining an analytic method that highlights both theoretical and methodological orientations deserving further sociological study.

The researcher was able to identify, using international search engines and databases, a statistical framework for analyzing the output of journals of development sociology.

A sample of 271 research papers were collected published between 2018 and 2021 on three development sociology journals with high scientiic ratings.

As a result, this paper presents seven signi ficant development trends in sociology.

This first relates to a broader discourse about development, which has pragmatic, coercive, integrative, and idealistic dimensions.

The remaining six trends under discussion are fair sustainability, inclusive development, social responsibility, social capital, digital development, and health and development care.