Scientific progress | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 21/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress


00:00:56 1 Measuring progress
00:02:41 2 Scientific progress
00:04:40 3 Social progress
00:05:06 3.1 Status of women
00:07:17 4 Modernization
00:16:54 5 Philosophy
00:25:32 5.1 Antiquity
00:26:57 5.2 Renaissance
00:27:51 5.3 The Enlightenment (1650–1800)
00:29:52 5.4 Romanticism
00:32:09 5.5 Marxist theory (late 19th century)
00:35:21 6 See also
00:35:30 7 Notes
00:35:39 8 Further reading
00:35:49 9 External links



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Progress is the idea that advances in technology, science, and social organization can produce an improvement in the human condition, and therefore that entire societies, and humanity in general, can improve in terms of their social, political, and economic structures. This may happen as a result of direct human action, as in social enterprise or through activism, or as a natural part of sociocultural evolution.
The concept of progress was introduced in the early 19th century social theories, especially social evolution as described by Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. It was present in the Enlightenment's philosophies of history. As a goal, social progress has been advocated by varying realms of political ideologies with different theories on how it is to be achieved.