Alexander J., Sztompka P. (eds.) Rethinking Progress: Movements, forces, and ideas at the end of the 20th century

London: Routledge, 1990. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 0044457537; ISBN13: 978-0044457534.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.Beyond progress and modernity
Rethinking the agents of progress
Rethinking the mechanisms of progress
New concepts of progress