Piotr Sztompka

Rethinking Progress

Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century
Herausgeber: Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Sztompka, Piotr

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780044457534
• ISBN-10: 0044457537
• Artikelnr.: 21140566

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey C. Alexander, Piotr Sztompka

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Piotr Sztompka; Part 1 Beyond progress
and modernity; Chapter 1 Between progress and apocalypse: social theory and
the dream of reason in the twentieth century, Jeffrey C. Alexander; Chapter
2 Problems of crisis and normalcy in the contemporary world, Robert Holton;
Chapter 3 The decadence of modernity: the delusions of progress and the
search for historical consciousness, Carlo Mongardini; Chapter 4 The
cultural code of modernity and the problem of nature: a critique of the
naturalistic notion of progress, Klaus Eder; Part 2 Rethinking the agents
of progress; Chapter 5 Intellectuals and progress: the origins, decline,
and revival of a critical group, Ron Eyerman; Chapter 6 Progress in the
distribution of power: gender relations and women's movements as a source
of change, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer; Chapter 7 The end
of western trade unionism?: social progress after the age of progressivism,
David Kettler, Volker Meja; Part 3 Rethinking the mechanisms of progress;
Chapter 8 Secularization and sacralization, Kenneth Thompson; Chapter 9 The
democratization of differentiation: on the creativity of collective action,
Hans Joas; Chapter 10 The relative autonomy of élites: the absorption of
protest and social progress in western democracies, Eva Etzioni-Halevy;
Part 4 New concepts of progress; Chapter 11 Models of directional change
and human values: the theory of progress as an applied social science,
Stepan Nowak; Chapter 12 Agency and progress: the idea of progress and
changing theories of change, Piotr Sztompka; Index;