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	Declaration on Social Progress and Development
		Social progress and development shall be founded on respect for the dignity and value of the human person and shall ensure the promotion of human rights and social justice, which requires:
		Social progress and development are the common concerns of the international community, which shall supplement, by concerted international action, national efforts to raise the living standards of peoples.
		Social progress and development shall aim at the continuous raising of the material and spiritual standards of living of all members of society, with respect for and in compliance with human rights and fundamental freedoms, through the attainment of the following main goals:
	www.hri.ca /fortherecordCanada/vol_app/app4/declar_progress.htm (2695 words)

	Declaration on Social Progress and Development
		Social progress and development shall be founded on respect for the dignity and value of the human person and shall ensure the promotion of human rights and social justice, which requires:
		The rapid expansion of national income and wealth and their equitable distribution among all members of society are fundamental to all social progress, and they should therefore be in the forefront of the preoccupations of every State and Government.
		Social progress and development are the common concerns of the international community, which shall supplement, by concerted international action, national efforts to raise the living standards of peoples.
	www.ohchr.org /english/law/progress.htm (2695 words)

	《티베트의 현대화》(《西藏的?代化?展》)
		Tibet's progress and development are closely related to those of the motherland, and the motherland's destiny directly affects Tibet's future.
		They struggled in concert, advanced with a pioneering spirit, laid the first stone for the construction with arduous efforts, and upheld the principle that economic construction and social progress should be undertaken simultaneously, and the economy and environment developed harmoniously.
		In a word, whatever was beneficial to Tibet's modernization and social progress and the happiness of the Tibetan people, they willfully misrepresented and left no stone unturned to oppose.
	www.chinaemb.or.kr /kor/zgzt/zgxz/t83578.htm (7848 words)

	NCPA - Study #232 - Public Spending And Social Progress
		While economic progress can be defined as a rise in per capita income or gross domestic product (GDP), social progress, or improvement in the quality of life, usually refers to improvements in physical conditions of life such as life expectancy and infant mortality.
		Social progress or improvement in the quality of life may be a subjective concept that arises from one person's life experience relative to others.
		The table also shows the average for each country of all six indices of social progress (rescaled to be in the interval 0 to 100), government consumption spending and the actual 1995 value of total government outlays as a share of GDP.
	www.ncpa.org /studies/s232/s232.html (4416 words)

	Social Development Theory
		Social development is the gradual discovery and unfolding of the potential of a complex, integrated whole, a living organization, a living social organism.
		Social development theory should focus on underlying processes rather than on surface activities and results, since development activities, policies, strategies, programs and results will always be limited to a specific context and circumstance, whereas social development itself encompasses a potentially infinite field in space and time.
		In the course of social development, society is moved by a range of different psychological motives--the quest for survival and self-preservation, the urge to possess land, the seeking for social status and power, and the pursuit of wealth.
	www.motherservice.org /Essays/SocialDevTheory.htm (11562 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		At the time that special interest groups conceived the notion of social progress, it was considered to be extremely radical.
		Socialism, which argues that state direction of social progress booked very important positive results; at the simplest level, it was able to overcome problems of hunger and disease, and raise the material and cultural standard of living for the great masses where markets could not.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=social_progress (1759 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Spencer: Social Darwinism, 1857
		When again we speak of moral or intellectual progress, we refer to the state of the indivdual or people exhibiting it; whilst, when the progress of Knowledge, of Science, of Art, is commented upon, we have in view certain abstract results of human thought and action.
		This progress is continuously repeated-is simultaneously going on in all parts of the growing embryo; and by endless multiplication of these differentiations there is ultimately produced that complex combination of tissues and organs constituting the adult animal or plant.
		Long after considerable progress has been made in the division of labour among different classes of workers, there is still little or no division of labour among the widely separated parts of the community: the nation continues comparatively homogeneous in the respect that in each district the same occupations are pursued.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/spencer-darwin.html (1329 words)

	Social Progress
		In the formulation of social welfare policies -- policies that touch on the problems of unemployment, shelter, health, food distribution, the family, crime, and education -- the Bahá'í International Community would suggest that the following principles be taken into account, principles that we consider to be spiritual but which have a clear societal expression.
		Too often social programmes and policies have failed because they lacked genuine input and participation from the very people and communities they were designed to serve.
		Social problems are inextricably linked to moral and ethical values; without an attempt to address and, indeed, fortify moral and ethical standards, social policies and programmes are unlikely to succeed.
	www.bic-un.bahai.org /87-0909.htm (1371 words)

	U.S. ranks 27th in world social progress; Africa in dire straits
		FRANKFURT -- Denmark and Sweden lead the world in social progress, Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list and the United States ranks 27th among 163 nations, according to the latest Index of Social Progress.
		These "world social report" figures were released today by Richard Estes of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work at the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Life Quality Studies.
		Estes characterized the pace of social progress in Latin America as "lackluster, citing no change since 1970 in the social situation in most Caribbean and Central American nations, where large segments of the people are poor." In Europe, he said, "advances in social development remained at a virtual standstill throughout much of the 1990s."
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-07/uop-ur2071703.php (799 words)

	Social Darwinism (1857)
		When again we speak of moral or intellectual progress, we refer to the state of the indivdual or people exhibiting it; whilst, when the progress of Knowledge, of Science, of Art, is commented upon, we have in view certain abstract results of human thought and action.
		This progress is continuously repeated—is simultaneously going on in all parts of the growing embryo; and by endless multiplication of these differentiations there is ultimately produced that complex combination of tissues and organs constituting the adult animal or plant.
		Long after considerable progress has been made in the division of labour among different classes of workers, there is still little or no division of labour among the widely separated parts of the community: the nation continues comparatively homogeneous in the respect that in each district the same occupations are pursued.
	faculty.unionky.edu /jcooley/I-readings/HUMN_213/Spencer.Social_Darwinism.htm (1266 words)

	Civilization.ca - Social Progress Gallery
		Social progress is the weight of laws designed to alleviate human suffering.
		Canada, while slow to start passing national legislation in this regard, rapidly addressed its social needs from the 1940s onwards.
		The information presented in the Social Progress Gallery has been developed through partnerships with individual researchers or organizations which have an expertise in the subject at hand.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/progrese.html (130 words)

	THE POSTECH NEWSLETTER
		Despite unquestionably critical contributions of science toward human rationality and social progress since the days of Copernicus, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci, science and technology has been constantly plagued with dark criticisms.
		This observation clearly indicates that science and technology is essential and a necessary condition for social progress, but not a sufficient condition.
		Certainly, science and technology can provide the required means for social progress, but society should also possess the ability to set the goals and to mobilize the necessary ways and means to achieve the goals.
	www.postech.ac.kr /e/newsletter/02summer/president.html (903 words)

	MDP
		A new measure of the state of Britain's economy, MDP or Measure of Domestic Progress, shows that social progress in Britain has become increasingly decoupled from economic growth over the last 50 years and has stalled completely in the last three decades, never regaining its 1976 peak.
		The report, "Chasing Progress", released by nef ahead of the Chancellor's budget announcement, shows that the growth in consumption represented by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) does not give a true picture of the progress of the nation and is failing to deliver on the Government's own sustainable development targets.
		The MDP reflects progress in Britons' quality of life and progress towards a sustainable economy by factoring in the social and environmental costs of economic growth, and benefits of unpaid work such as household labour, that are excluded from GDP.
	www.neweconomics.org /gen/news_mdp.aspx (585 words)

	Unasylva - Vol. 15, No. 1 - Social progress for forest workers
		The more the sustained or progressive yield principle is respected and applied to smaller areas and the more intensive forestry becomes, the less it is necessary to move logging camps.
		The training of forest workers is also an important contribution to the social progress of forest workers, and this importance is highlighted by the mechanization of logging and other forest work, and the increasing number of permanent forest workers.
		Foresters are responsible for the social progress of forest workers.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5398e/x5398e02.htm (2460 words)

	Alazanto: The Psychodynamic Self and Social Progress
		Both the social and ecological community must nurture the individual in order for that individual to grow into a healthy adult both psychologically and physiologically.
		In the sense that a mother, for instance, interacts with her child on a day-to-day basis: holding, rocking, singing, speaking, bathing, and feeding; the social and ecological communities of which this individual is a part must have a presence within their stages of development and growth.
		In essence, nurturing from both the social and ecological community is the causa sine qua non to the successful actualization of an individual’s potentiality.
	alazanto.org /permanent/essays/the_psychodynamic_self_and_social_progress.php (2833 words)

	cover priorities for geneva
		The first principle is that sustainable* social progress cannot be achieved without creating and maintaining environments at both national and international levels which will enable such progress.
		The second principle is that sustainable social progress and sustainable economic development are mutually interdependent.
		While economic development is necessary to expand resources and opportunities for social progress, so social progress is necessary to nurture and preserve economic development.
	www.icsw.org /publications/sustainable-social-progress/introduction.htm (483 words)

	Social Design - Progress op-ed
		This piece was written at the request of The Progress Project, an initiative of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington and the Glaser Family Foundation.
		Progress is not a thing to hold or a place to reach, but rather the particular path we take towards our goal.
		Progress is not something you hold in your hand or park in your driveway—it's a social process that moves us towards the goals that we value.
	www.socialdesign.org /chris/oped-progress.html (947 words)

	What is progress? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The progress described above is due to technological advance and the social advances that have permitted the technological advances to be used.
		Human history is one of gradually accelerating progress punctuated by disasters like big wars and worsenings of climate and also periods of stagnation.
		It is only since the 18th century that a person would experience enough progress in his lifetime to regard continued progress as a normal state of society.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /jmc/progress/progress.html (1843 words)

	Social Security Online
		The Social Security Board acts as a clearing house for information gathered by the States in the operation of their own laws and places all the facilities of its Washington headquarters and its 12 regional offices at the service of the States.
		We have enacted more social legislation in the last year and a half than we enacted during the preceding quarter of a century, but the program is by no means perfect or complete.
		The Social Security Act, like the Constitution, may be imperfect; yet it, and other efforts like it in the days to come, will contribute their full measure to the often halting but never ending struggle toward social progress.
	www.ssa.gov /history/altm5.html (3341 words)

	Cognitive and Social Progress
		to study the relations between the on-going "cognitive revolution", as exemplified by the worldwide increase in education levels and intelligence of the population, and other measures of social progress, such as increases in health, life-expectancy, wealth, quality of life, peace, life-satisfaction, happiness, etc.
		In spite of the fact that QOL is intrinsically subjective and that every measurement method has flaws, the results of such measurements appear unexpectedly reliable, in the sense that they allow the prediction of objective properties of the subject or the society.
		This would promote a planned progress, which is much more efficient than the blind variation which normally provides the substrate for natural selection; 3) positive feedback or synergy, where progress in one domain (e.g.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /CLEA/Groups/Progress.html (1552 words)

	Social Progress - Education in Universal Human Values (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Involvement in the process of fostering social progress provides an invaluable opportunity to the study group for investigating social practices, critically questioning the world around, practicing moral capabilities and influencing other youth to follow the suit.
		Hence it is a characteristic of one who walks the straight path to take hold of the hands of the helpless and deliver them out of their ignorance and with pure motives, to arise and energetically devote themselves to the service of the masses.
		They may include examining and describing what prejudices prevail and their relationship with generalization, study historical or personal examples of discrimination and their devastating effects (without indulging in backbiting), discuss ways and means of promoting unity and fellowship.
	www.bahaiacademy.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=1 (697 words)

	The Ninth Street Center: Social Progress
		Social progress does, in fact, require a generation gap.
		But the great thing about strength and wisdom is that, once they exist, the next generation accepts them as their natural inheritance, as an inalienable right they would rather die for than do without.
		They see social upheavals as "bad weather" and try to shield their patients from its impact.
	www.ninthstreetcenter.org /Progress.htm (793 words)

	Social Progress Trust Fund - SourceWatch
		The Committee of 21 met September 5-13, 1960, in Bogotá, Colombia, and the delegates "passed the Act of Bogotá, which cited Latin America’s need for social and economic reforms.
		The theoretical underpinning of the Alliance for Progress, Walt Rostow's 'Stages of Economic Growth', was subtitled 'An Anti-Communist Manifesto'.
		The gospel of modernization replaced the gospel of democracy, but the practice of Washington's Latin American policies was remarkably consistent with that of the previous 'imperial regime' (1790s-1930s)—diplomatic and economic pressure (carrot and stick), covert action, and direct military intervention," Schell wrote.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Social_Progress_Trust_Fund (579 words)

	Progress and Poverty, Chapter 41
		Civilizations advance in proportion to the mental power expended in progression -- that is, mental power devoted to the extension of knowledge, the improvement of methods, and the betterment of social conditions.
		People progress by cooperating with each other to increase the mental power that may be devoted to improvement.
		Political economy and social science can teach only the same simple truths that underlie every religion that has striven to formulate the spiritual yearnings of man. Civilizations advance as their social arrangements promote justice.
	www.henrygeorge.org /pchp41.htm (2780 words)

	Atheism and Social Progress
		That implies the examination of the many facets of social life and deciding what improvements, if any, should be made or attempted.
		The range of social activity is virtually endless but the desire or the ability is restricted by the competence, persistence and time available to each person.
		Many social problems are universal and probably those mentioned will be problems in most other countries.
	www.atheistfoundation.org.au /atheismsocialprogress.htm (1717 words)

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