scientific-technological progress
11Progress trap — A progress trap is the condition societies experience when, in pursuing progress, human ingenuity inadvertently introduces problems that the society does not have the resources to solve, preventing further progress. Social collapse is often the… …
12Scientific jargon — While studying nature, scientists often encounter or create new material or immaterial objects and concepts and are compelled to name them. Most of those names are known only to professionals. However, due to popularization of science, they… …
13Social progress — is defined as the changing of society toward the ideal. The concept of social progress was introduced in the early, 19th century social theories, especially those of social evolutionists like August Comte and Herbert Spencer. It was present in… …
14Idea of Progress — This article is about the theory that scientific and social progress improves the human condition. For the concept of Progress in the abstract, see Progress (history). In historiography, the Idea of Progress is the theory that advances in… …
15Union, Progress and Democracy — Infobox Political Party party name = Unión Progreso y Democracia colorcode = FF00FF party leader = Rosa Díez foundation = September 29, 2007 ideology = constitutionalism (defense of the Spanish Constitution of 1978), antinationalism,… …
16Vladimir Kvint — Dr. Vladimir Kvint (born 1949) is an economist, the President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets, and a Professor (since 2005) at La Salle University s School of Business (Pennsylvania, USA). In parallel, since 2007, he has been the …
17Научно-технический прогресс — в советской экономической науке использование передовых достижений науки и техники, технологии в хозяйстве, в производстве с целью повышения эффективности и качества производственных процессов, лучшего удовлетворения потребности людей. По… …
18technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
19international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
20Sociocultural evolution — Cultural evolution redirects here. For gene culture coevolution, see Dual inheritance theory. Sociology …
