The challenge of progress : theory between critique and ideology

• Other Authors: Dahms, Harry F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 36.
• Subjects: Progress.; Social change.; Globalization.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787149809; 9781787145719
• ISSN: 0278-1204 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/s0278-1204202036
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages).

Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all l...