movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century /
edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Piotr Sztompka.
Boston, Mass. :
Unwin Hyman,
1990.
1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.