LEADER 03334nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910779966003321 005 20230427222123.0 010 $a1-134-99788-4 010 $a1-280-32771-5 010 $a0-203-16190-4 035 $a(CKB)111056485245244 035 $a(EBL)178096 035 $a(OCoLC)437080169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237214 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191686 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237214 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189420 035 $a(PQKB)11502305 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL178096 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10060790 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL32771 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC178096 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485245244 100 $a19901003d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRethinking progress $emovements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century /$feditors, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Piotr Sztompka 210 1$aBoston :$cUnwin Hyman,$d1990. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) 300 $aOutcome of a conference organized by the editors at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, held between June 28 and July 1, 1988. 311 0 $a1-138-99733-1 311 0 $a0-04-445753-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction; 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 327 $a6. 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 330 $aRethinking 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. 606 $aProgress$vCongresses 606 $aPolitical sociology$vCongresses 615 0$aProgress 615 0$aPolitical sociology 676 $a303.44 701 $aAlexander$b Jeffrey C.$f1947-$039909 701 $aSztompka$b Piotr$0127871 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779966003321 996 $aRethinking progress$93805108 997 $aUNINA