Rethinking progress : movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century / / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Piotr Sztompka

• Pubblicazione: Boston, Mass., : Unwin Hyman, 1990
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.44
• Soggetto topico: Progress; Political sociology
• Altri autori: AlexanderJeffrey C. <1947-> SztompkaPiotr
• Note generali: Outcome of a conference organized by the editors at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, held between June 28 and July 1, 1988.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking progress
• ISBN: 1-134-99788-4; 1-280-32771-5; 0-203-16190-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817733403321
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