Leslie Sklair

The Sociology of Progress (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. His thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134685684
• Artikelnr.: 42676976

Autorenporträt

Sklair, Leslie

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The history of the idea of progress
I. The roots of the idea of progress
II. Progress and the European enlightenment
III. Progress through order and progress through revolution: Comte and Marx
IV. Progress and evolution
V. The decline of optimism
VI. Progress as a contemporary problem
Part Two: A sociological theory of progress
VII. Two concepts of progress
VIII. The sociological ethic (1)
IX. The sociological ethic (2)
X. The search for functional requisites
XI. Needs
morals and society
XII. The sociological theory of progress and some criticisms
XIII. Progress and some problems of the sociology of science
XIV. Conclusion
References
Name index
Subject index