Donald G. Reid

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. It will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students of sociology, political science, philosophy, environmental sustainability and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000609226
• Artikelnr.: 64096839

Autorenporträt

Donald G. Reid is University Professor Emeritus in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) at the University of Guelph in Canada. He is an international scholar whose work focuses on sustainable development, social planning, poverty, community development, leisure, and tourism. His previous books are Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century: In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation (Routledge, 2017) and A New World-System: From Chaos to Sustainability (Routledge, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Basis of Human Culture 2. The Social Contract: The Beginning of Civilization? 3. Social Progress and Change Throughout Human History 4. The Upward Trajectory of Social Progress 5. The Ideological Struggle 6. Achieving Meaning in Life 7. Reconstructing the Social Contract and the Idea of Social Progress