Mankind In Transition; A View of the Distant Past, the Present and the Far Future, Masefield Books, 1993./ref technology (which Richta defines as "a material entity created by the application of menta ...
Technological evolution is the name of a innovation technology related theory describing technology development. It originate by Czech philosopher Radovan Richta.
The Social Progress Index is a tool developed by the International Organization Imperative Social Progress, which measures the extent to which countries cover social and environmental needs of its cit ...
In the present time, this trend of thought about social progress leads to five main kinds of responses: Neo-conservatism, which returns to the old idea that nothing ever truly changes in the human con ...
The Enlightenment (1650-1800) Main article: Age of EnlightenmentThe big breakthrough to a new idea in Europe Enlightenment, when social commentators and philosophers began to realize that people thems ...
Social progress is the idea that societies can or do improve in terms of their social, political, and economic structures. This may happen as a result of direct human action, as in social enterprise o ...
Leninism Vladimir Lenin continued and extended the use of the word "decadence" in his theory of imperialism to refer to economic matters underlying political manifestations. According to Lenin, capita ...
Dandies Main article: DandySporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a girdle helped one achieve this silhouette. The man on the left wears a frock coat, the man on the right wears a morning coatA dandy ( ...
For other uses, see Decadence (disambiguation).An orgy in Imperial Rome, by Henryk SiemiradzkiThe word decadence, which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to ...
Main article: Demographics of the worldOne of the most obvious changes currently occurring is the change in the relative global population distribution between countries. In the recent decades, develo ...
Change comes from two sources. One source is random or unique factors such as climate, weather, or the presence of specific groups of people. Another source is systematic factors. For example, success ...
Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. Social change may include changes in nature, social institutions, social behaviours, or social relations. Social change may refe ...