Significados de social retrogression en inglés

And all this would have signified, in more ways than one, a social retrogression towards barbarism.

The moral and social retrogression indicated in this item of the Comptroller's report is thrown into bold relief by another item, the expenditures for schools.

The reviewer is, as he informs us, "far from regarding this tendency, unfavorable as it is to present progress, as a sign of social retrogression."