Rethinking Progress Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century

Name: Rethinking Progress Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780044457534

ISBN-10: 0044457537

ISBN-13: 9780044457534

Edition: 1990

Authors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Piotr Sztompka

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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.

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/23/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Preface


Introduction



Beyond Progress and Modernity



Between Progress and Apocalypse: Social Theory and the Dream of Reason in the Twentieth Century


Notes


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Problems of Crisis and Normalcy in the Contemporary World


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The Decadence of Modernity: the Delusions of Progress and the Search for Historical Consciousness


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The Cultural Code of Modernity and the Problem of Nature: a Critique of the Naturalistic Notion of Progress


Notes


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Rethinking the Agents of Progress



Intellectuals and Progress: the Origins, Decline, and Revival of a Critical Group


Notes


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Progress in the Distribution of Power: Gender Relations and Women's Movements as a Source of Change


Notes


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The End of Western Trade Unionism?: Social Progress After the Age of Progressivism


Notes


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Rethinking the Mechanisms of Progress



Secularization and Sacralization


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The Democratization of Differentiation: on the Creativity of Collective Action


Notes



The Relative Autonomy of ï¿½lites: the Absorption of Protest and Social Progress in Western Democracies


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New Concepts of Progress



Models of Directional Change and Human Values: the Theory of Progress as an Applied Social Science


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Agency and Progress: the Idea of Progress and Changing Theories of Change


Notes


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Index