What is Social Progress?

Very interesting post by Daniel Little, discussing the meaning of social progress. UnderstandingSociety: Social progress

What is involved in "making society better"? What do we have in mind when we aspire to improving society? I suppose there are several things we might mean by this idea. Superficially we might say that a society is better off when its members are better off; but is there more to the story? There seem to be several different lines of thought to pursue. Continue reading