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

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947- ; Sztompka, Piotr, 1944-

Boston, Mass : Unwin Hyman, 1990

Online Ressource (xi, 268 pages)

Englisch

Pt. 1. Beyond progress and modernitypt. 2. Rethinking the agents of progress -- pt. 3. Rethinking the mechanisms of progress -- pt. 4. New concepts of progress.

"This book is the outcome of a conference organized by the editors at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland ... June 28 and July 1, 1988"--Pref. - GB90-2093. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Rethinking progress

978-0-04-445753-4 ; 0-04-445753-7 ; 978-0-203-16190-6 ( : electronic bk.); 0-203-16190-4 (electronic bk.)

0-04-445753-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 646718010 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HM101

303.44     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC000000 ; bisacsh: SOC 000000

LOC-SH: Progress -- Congresses ; Progress -- Congresses ; Progress -- Congresses ; Political sociology ; Electronic books

Electronic books / Conference papers and proceedings ; Political sociology ; Progress ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Conference papers and proceedings

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

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pt. 1. Beyond progress and modernity -- pt. 2. Rethinking the agents of progress -- pt. 3. Rethinking the mechanisms of progress -- pt. 4. New concepts of progress.