Piotr Sztompka: 2 books
Rethinking Progress
Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
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...
Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory)
Reorienting Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
A striking feature of the human condition is its dual, contradictory, inherently split character; on the one hand, autonomy and freedom; on the other, constraint and dependence on social structure. This volume addresses this central problem of the linkage between human action and social structure...