Problems of rural development in Central Java : an ethnomethodological perspective

Rural development, when it has been conceived of as a science at all, has generally been conceived of as a quantitative science. Numbers are used to establish the baseline of the population at issue, to plan changes in the population and to measure the impact of success of these changes. The authors argue that this confident quantification led to critical weaknesses in much of the past and present work in development. They propose an alternative research methodology supported by case material from a study of rural development in Central Java