Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Exploration
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It is a still relevant open question if and how sustainability fits into the sociological understanding. This paper aims to make a contribution to the understanding how sustainable development can be maintain through the lens of sociological understanding. As we further move towards development, we see economic, political and cultural disparities creating wide gap in cooperation among social institution. The first part of the paper delves into understanding sociological theories in context of sustainable development. Second part deals with how community collective efforts can maintain sustainable development. This paper discusses how sociological theories and social institution determine sustainable development. Further, argues that through community engagement disparities can be reduces taking sociological lens into consideration.
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