UID:
edocfu_9958073178202883
Format:
1 online resource (289 p.)
Edition:
Reprint, Annotated.
ISBN:
1-134-68568-8
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1-134-68569-6
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1-280-03719-9
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0-203-00151-6
Series Statement:
International library of sociology and social reconstruction
Content:
Annotation
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The roots of the idea of progress; The threshold of the 'modern' world; Progress and the European enlightenment; Germany and Britain; Progress through order and progress through revolution: Comte and Marx; Comte and the idea of progress; Positivism and progress after Comte; Marx's theory of progress; A note on Hegel; Progress and evolution; Darwinisticism and social evolution; The decline of optimism; Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin; Progress as a contemporary problem; The reaction against technology; Two concepts of progress
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InnovationAppendix; The sociological ethic (1); The redefinition of ethical problems; The sociological ethic (2); Why a sociological ethic?; The search for functional requisites; Malinowski and the functional theory of basic needs; The functional prerequisites of a society; Levy; research and development; Parsons and the functional problems; Needs, morals and society; The sociological theory of progress and some criticisms; Progress and some problems of the sociology of science; The space race; Conclusion; References; Name index; Subject index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-43682-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17545-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203001516
