Rethinking Progress

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This informative book provides a challenging re-evaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization - the notion of progress. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversified perspectives on its fate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138997332
• ISBN-10: 1138997331
• Artikelnr.: 44735416

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;