Populism Against Progress
and the collapse of aspirational values
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Current Events, Political Science, Government, Local Government
| Author: | Robert Corfe | ISBN: | 9781906791087 |
| Publisher: | Arena Books | Publication: | April 22, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Arena Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Corfe |
| ISBN: | 9781906791087 |
| Publisher: | Arena Books |
| Publication: | April 22, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Arena Books |
| Language: | English |
The increasing complexity of industrial society, together with the prospect of economic and environmental threats on a scale never before experienced, entails an ever-greater demand on the educational and citizenship-skills of the ordinary individual. An appropriately educated public is needed to ensure effective democracy, and also, that suitably qualified men and women are elected to power - and this is something which transcends the narrow factor of party politics.
A sociological analysis of populism reveals it as the cancer of democracy. The breadth of the subject matter covers such issues as Islamic fundamentalism in barring the path to progress; the self-destructiveness of Western politics tghrough a facile view of our real condition; and a glance at the arts. A broad view canvas, covering many disciplines in the social sciences, is evoked in furthering the crucial arguments in this interesting book.
The increasing complexity of industrial society, together with the prospect of economic and environmental threats on a scale never before experienced, entails an ever-greater demand on the educational and citizenship-skills of the ordinary individual. An appropriately educated public is needed to ensure effective democracy, and also, that suitably qualified men and women are elected to power - and this is something which transcends the narrow factor of party politics.
A sociological analysis of populism reveals it as the cancer of democracy. The breadth of the subject matter covers such issues as Islamic fundamentalism in barring the path to progress; the self-destructiveness of Western politics tghrough a facile view of our real condition; and a glance at the arts. A broad view canvas, covering many disciplines in the social sciences, is evoked in furthering the crucial arguments in this interesting book.
