Sociology of Progress / by Leslie Sklair.
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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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- The roots of the idea of progress
- Progress and the European enlightenment
- Progress through order and progress through revolution: Comte and Marx
- Progress and evolution
- The decline of optimism
- Progress as a contemporary problem
- Two concepts of progress
- The sociological ethic (1)
- The sociological ethic (2)
- The search for functional requisites
- Needs, morals and society
- The sociological theory of progress and some criticisms
- Progress and some problems of the sociology of science
- Conclusion.