Download or read book Progress as a Sociological Concept written by Erville Bartlett Woods and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by Morris Ginsberg and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Manifesto for Social Progress written by Marc Fleurbaey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines how to rethink society's economic, political, and social institutions and actions to take to build better societies.

Download or read book The Sociology of Progress written by Leslie Sklair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. He took his BA (hons) in Sociology and Philosophy from Leeds University and his MA in Sociology from McMaster University in Canada. He received his PhD from LSE, and his thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970.

Download or read book Theory and Progress in Social Science written by James B. Rule and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, sequel to the author's Theories of Civil Violence, attacks questions that have long troubled social science and social scientists - questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry. Does the knowledge generated by the study of social, political, and economic life grow more comprehensive over time? These questions go to the heart of social scientists' soul-searching as to whether they are indeed engaged in 'science'. The author pursues these questions through in-depth examination of various theoretical programs currently influential in social science, including feminist social science, rational choice theory, network analysis and others.

Download or read book The Challenge of Progress written by Harry F. Dahms and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of “progress”?

Download or read book Theories of Social Progress written by Arthur James Todd and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theories of Social Progress written by Arthur James Todd and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lester Frank Ward and the Concept of Social Progress written by Paul Jones Hebard and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Philosophy of Social Progress written by Edward Johns Urwick and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Outlines of the Sociology of Human Behavior written by Daniel Harrison Kulp and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy written by Donald G. Reid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author’s previous work, this book discusses whether social progress is linear and on a continual upward trajectory to human betterment, or if there are peaks and troughs along the way. More importantly, it questions that, if social progress exists, is it compatible with social and environmental sustainability? At the outset the book introduces the concepts of social contract theory and the idea of human social progress, long considered to be settled conditions, now ripe for further examination. Each chapter carefully analyses the contemporary struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, using examples from the USA as a foundation to discuss and compare democracies from around the world encountering the pressures of rising authoritarianism, including anti-immigration, xenophobia and anti-institutionalism. It argues that if the climate crisis is to be urgently addressed as required, the rise in authoritarian thinking, with its focus on maintaining power and the creation of individual wealth, presents a challenge to both our societal foundations and environmental sustainability. Highlighting and analysing topics of critical importance to today’s society, this book will have widespread appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology, political science, philosophy, environmental sustainability and development studies.

Download or read book Power and Progress written by Robert Bierstedt and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1974 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by Sidney Pollard and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1971 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress and Its Discontents written by Gabriel A. Almond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-05-17 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Events of the past two decades have challenged many of the fundamental beliefs, institutions, and values of modern western culture--the culture of "progress." Are science and technology really progressive and beneficial? Have they led to the enhancement of welfare, greater hapiness, and moral immprovement? I s the continued growth of material productivity possible? Desirable? Are the institutions of progress viable? Progress and Its Discontents assembles the views on progress of some of America's leading humanists, scientists, and social scientists. Citing disappointed expectations of progress in spheres from science to morals and politics, and the many problems created or left untouched by progress, the editors conclude that the term no longer refers to "an inevitable sequence of improvements" but rather to "an aspiration and compelling obligation."

Download or read book Trauma written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe. Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He outlines a model of trauma work that relates interests of carrier groups, competing narrative identifications of victim and perpetrator, utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative power of constructed events, and the distribution of organizational resources. Alexander explores these processes in richly textured case studies of cultural-trauma origins and effects, from the universalism of the Holocaust to the particularism of the Israeli right, from postcolonial battles over the Partition of India and Pakistan to the invisibility of the Rape of Nanjing in Maoist China. In a particularly controversial chapter, Alexander describes the idealizing discourse of globalization as a trauma-response to the Cold War. Contemporary societies have often been described as more concerned with the past than the future, more with tragedy than progress. In Trauma: A Social Theory, Alexander explains why.

Download or read book Rethinking Progress written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of alienation. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversified perspectives on the fate of progress.