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The Sociology of Progress

by Leslie Sklair

Pages: 274

Contributors: Leslie Sklair

Publisher: Routledge

Place of Publication: London

Publication Year: 1998

Subjects: Progress

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One

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

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