Author: Fred Polak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Image of the Future: The promised land, source of living culture
Author: Fred Polak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Theories of Industrial Society (RLE Social Theory)
Author: Richard Badham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317650514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences. The ‘Great Divide’ between pre-industrial and industrial societies is commonly assumed to be the main bridge separating modern societies from the past, and distinguishing ‘developed’ from ‘undeveloped’ states in the present era. In history, economics, politics and sociology the concept of industrial society underlies a wide variety of discussions, particularly those relating to economic development and social progress. Outside academic writing, too, the concept exerts a great deal of influence. In the developing world, there is a widespread concern to ‘industrialise’, whilst in the developed world there is growing uneasiness as to whether ‘industrialisation’ is beneficial or not, but still the concept is central. This book examines critically the concept of industrial society, its pervasiveness and influence. It reviews all the major theories of industrial society and the research into the changing character of post-industrial societies. It argues that the decision to use the concept severely restricts the social imagination, and that the concept becomes increasingly less useful as criticism of the equating of industrialisation with social progress grows.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317650514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences. The ‘Great Divide’ between pre-industrial and industrial societies is commonly assumed to be the main bridge separating modern societies from the past, and distinguishing ‘developed’ from ‘undeveloped’ states in the present era. In history, economics, politics and sociology the concept of industrial society underlies a wide variety of discussions, particularly those relating to economic development and social progress. Outside academic writing, too, the concept exerts a great deal of influence. In the developing world, there is a widespread concern to ‘industrialise’, whilst in the developed world there is growing uneasiness as to whether ‘industrialisation’ is beneficial or not, but still the concept is central. This book examines critically the concept of industrial society, its pervasiveness and influence. It reviews all the major theories of industrial society and the research into the changing character of post-industrial societies. It argues that the decision to use the concept severely restricts the social imagination, and that the concept becomes increasingly less useful as criticism of the equating of industrialisation with social progress grows.
The Image of the Future
Author: Frederik Lodewijk Polak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Author: David Brion Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195056396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195056396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.
Evolution-Revolution
Author: Ervin Laszlo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000517608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Originally published in 1971 Evolution – Revolution is an interdisciplinary volume examining inquiry around the central topic of evolution and revolution. Containing contributions from a number of eminent academics of the time, the book addresses the meaning and application of evolution and revolution in the context, not of what things are, or even how they behave, but how they become. The broad interdisciplinary range of essays explores this concept through the idea of development and change and argues that both change, and development must be measured against concepts of flux and that which endures. The editors of the book suggest that these are the ‘invariants’ which contemporary thinkers are beginning to accept as the process-counterparts of Platonic ‘immutables’. Thus this volume examines the two ‘immutables’ of evolution and revolution. The book covers the concept through essays in science, philosophic concepts of rationalism and existentialism, art and religion.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000517608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Originally published in 1971 Evolution – Revolution is an interdisciplinary volume examining inquiry around the central topic of evolution and revolution. Containing contributions from a number of eminent academics of the time, the book addresses the meaning and application of evolution and revolution in the context, not of what things are, or even how they behave, but how they become. The broad interdisciplinary range of essays explores this concept through the idea of development and change and argues that both change, and development must be measured against concepts of flux and that which endures. The editors of the book suggest that these are the ‘invariants’ which contemporary thinkers are beginning to accept as the process-counterparts of Platonic ‘immutables’. Thus this volume examines the two ‘immutables’ of evolution and revolution. The book covers the concept through essays in science, philosophic concepts of rationalism and existentialism, art and religion.
Summary of Major Legislative Action of the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, 92d Congress
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Idealism, Politics and History
Author: George Armstrong Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143226
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Through a series of linked studies, this text provides a wide-ranging analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143226
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Through a series of linked studies, this text provides a wide-ranging analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period.
Alternative Futures in American Education
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Beyond the Promised Land
Author: David F. Noble
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1897071787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Iconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture. Part impassioned manifesto, part masterful survey of opposed philosophical and economic schools, Beyond the Promised Land brings into focus the twisted template of the Western imagination and its faith-based market economy. From the first recorded versions of ‘the promise’ saga in ancient Babylon, to the Zapatistas’ rejection of promises never kept, Noble explores the connections between Judeo-Christian belief and corporate globalization. Inspiration for activists and students alike.
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1897071787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Iconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture. Part impassioned manifesto, part masterful survey of opposed philosophical and economic schools, Beyond the Promised Land brings into focus the twisted template of the Western imagination and its faith-based market economy. From the first recorded versions of ‘the promise’ saga in ancient Babylon, to the Zapatistas’ rejection of promises never kept, Noble explores the connections between Judeo-Christian belief and corporate globalization. Inspiration for activists and students alike.