03382nam 2200625Ia 450 991081773340332120241004153915.01-134-99788-41-280-32771-50-203-16190-4(PPN)198460015(CKB)111056485245244(EBL)178096(OCoLC)437080169(SSID)ssj0000237214(PQKBManifestationID)11191686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237214(PQKBWorkID)10189420(PQKB)11502305(Au-PeEL)EBL178096(CaPaEBR)ebr10060790(CaONFJC)MIL32771(MiAaPQ)EBC178096(EXLCZ)9911105648524524419901003d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRethinking progress movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century /edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Piotr Sztompka1st ed.Boston, Mass. Unwin Hyman19901 online resource (xi, 268 pages)Outcome of a conference organized by the editors at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, held between June 28 and July 1, 1988.1-138-99733-1 0-04-445753-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 group6. 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; IndexRethinking 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.ProgressCongressesPolitical sociologyProgressPolitical sociology.303.44Alexander Jeffrey C.1947-39909Sztompka Piotr127871MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817733403321Rethinking progress4121258UNINA