Culture, Actors, and Development in Local Community Contexts

Many sociological studies of local development in Spain are focused too narrowly on economics or are merely descriptive. To overcome this lack of analysis, both strategic analysis & actor-network theory are applied to studying the implementation of the Leader I & II programs in Galicia during the mid-1990s. The analysis compliments the individualist method of M. Crozier & E. Friedberg (1977), which examines an actor's strategic capacity, with M. Callon & B. Latour's (1991) approach to the group dimension of action & with approaches of other scholars who emphasize studying the cultural & social dimensions in the process of local development. The analysis of stages in the process allows the identification of the sequence of changes from program conception to outcome & the effects on program success. 3 Tables, 80 References. Adapted from the source document.