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Rethinking progress : movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-, Sztompka, Piotr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston, Mass. : Unwin Hyman, 1990.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.