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UNINA9910454977203321 |
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Titolo |
Rethinking progress [[electronic resource] ] : movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century / / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Piotr Sztompka |
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Boston, Mass., : Unwin Hyman, 1990 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-32771-5 |
0-203-16190-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AlexanderJeffrey C. <1947-> |
SztompkaPiotr |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Progress |
Political sociology |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Outcome of a conference organized by the editors at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, held between June 28 and July 1, 1988. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. between progress and apocalypse: social theory and the dream of reason in the twentieth century; 2. Problems of crisis and normalcy in the contemporary world; 3. The decadence of modernity: the delusions of progress and the search for historical consciousness; 4. The cultural code of modernity and the problem of nature: a critique of the naturalistic notion of progress; 5. Intellectuals and progress: the origins, decline and revival of a critical group |
6. Progress in the distributions of power: gender relations and women's movements as a source of change 7. The end of western trade unionism?; 8. Secularization and sacralization; 9. The Democratization of the differentiation: on the creativity of collective action; 10. The relative autonomy of elites: the absorption of protest and social progress in the western democracies; 11. models of directional change and human values: the theory of progress as an applied social science; 12. Agency and progress: the idea of progress and the changing of the theories of change; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted resources, decaying cultures, and widespread feelings of alienation. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversified perspectives on the fate of progress. |
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