{"id":251,"date":"2018-03-02T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/?p=251"},"modified":"2018-03-02T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T12:41:38","slug":"daniel-lerners-the-grocer-and-the-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/uncategorized\/daniel-lerners-the-grocer-and-the-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Lerner&#8217;s &#8220;The Grocer and the Chief&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Critically assess Daniel Lerner&#8217;s account of development and modernity in &#8220;The Grocer and the Chief.&#8221;\u00a0 Lerner&#8217;s confident description of Balgat&#8217;s progress reveals more about the researcher than it does about the village under study.\u00a0 What are Lerner&#8217;s assumptions about progress and change, and how might those assumptions distort his analysis?\u00a0 You might take into consideration the possibility that the true protagonist of the story is not the maligned Grocer but the Chief and his sons&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critically assess Daniel Lerner&#8217;s account of development and modernity in &#8220;The Grocer and the Chief.&#8221;\u00a0 Lerner&#8217;s confident description of Balgat&#8217;s progress reveals more about the researcher than it does about the village under study.\u00a0 What are Lerner&#8217;s assumptions about progress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/uncategorized\/daniel-lerners-the-grocer-and-the-chief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}