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This article is part of a special issue on development & deals with the sociol of development. The interest in problems of development was born after WWII & deals with a set of nations & soc systems which are designated by the terms "Third World." Res on development proliferates (10,000 titles in the 1950's). The gathered information helps to understand the many difficulties that development encounters: the gap between the economies of industr & developing countries becomes wider & wider; & will only get worse. The controversy over development policies implies the controversy between disciplines which study development. A. Gunder Frank attacks the sociol of development for becoming more & more underdeveloped; A. Abdel-Malek's work tries to define the "future of soc theory" through a critique of the present situation; R. Bastide's work opposes applied anthrop to the sociol of development & lists its prospective tasks; G. Balandier considers that unavoidable constraints imperatively call for the construction of a new, "dynamic & generative" sociol. He first discusses the diff trends in the sociol of development: criteriology, typology by diff's, theory of the steps of growth (W. W. Rostow, S. N. Eisenstadt), "dynamist," & comparative analyses dealing with modernization, res by "non-conformist" anthrop'ts such as D. Apter, G. Geertz, W. Wertheim...dynamic & generative sociol shows that the problematic of developing countries enriches the problematic of more advanced societies, & vice versa, &, that, in both cases, the society, through the dialectics of continuity & discontinuities, grasps itself as a permanent creation, both given & in becoming. AA Tr by M. Laferriere.