Rethinking Progress - Jeffrey C. Alexander & Piotr Sztompka

Rethinking Progress

By Jeffrey C. Alexander & Piotr Sztompka

  • Release Date: 2002-09-11
  • Genre: Sociology

Description

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.