The sociology of progress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sklair, Leslie.

Series:

International library of sociology and social reconstruction (Routledge & Kegan Paul)

International library of sociology and social reconstruction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progress.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

Reprint, Annotated.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1970.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. His thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970.

Contents:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-68568-8

1-134-68569-6

1-280-03719-9

0-203-00151-6

9780203001516

OCLC:

437078463