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Rethinking Progress : Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth.
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 twentiet...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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London :
Routledge,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.
- 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 so.