ISBN:
9780044457534
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Progress : Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth
DDC:
303.44
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A collection of papers which were the outcome of a conference organized by the editors of Jagiellonian University in Drakow, Poland, which took place between June 28 and July 1, 1988. The topic was "Social progress and sociological theory: movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the twentieth century". The meeting was the first material result of our ongoing efforts to organize and "invisible college" of sociological theoriest on an international scale
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. between progress and apocolypse: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Progress in the distributions of power: gender relations and women's movements as a source of change7. 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 absorbtion 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;
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Description based upon print version of record
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