ABSTRACT
First published in 2002. Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. He took his BA (hons) in Sociology and Philosophy from Leeds University and his MA in Sociology from McMaster University in Canada. He received his PhD from LSE, and his thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part I|108 pages
The history of the idea of progress
chapter I|13 pages
The roots of the idea of progress
chapter II|18 pages
Progress and the European enlightenment
chapter III|22 pages
Progress through order and progress through revolution: Comte and Marx
chapter IV|16 pages
Progress and evolution
chapter V|16 pages
The decline of optimism
chapter VI|20 pages
Progress as a contemporary problem
part two|129 pages
A sociological theory of progress
