The New Sociological ImaginationPine Forge Press, 2006 M02 7 - 240 pages C. Wright Mills′ classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, the book is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students in the 21st century? This is the task that Steve Fuller sets himself in this major new invitation to study Sociology. The book:
This book sets the agenda for imagining sociology in the 21st century and will attract students and professionals alike. |
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... 20th century will be remembered for two tendencies that underscore the profundity of Alvin Gouldner's expression, 'welfarewarfare state': an unprecedented expansion in the capacities of various parts of the globe for widespread ...
... 20th century will be remembered for two tendencies that underscore the profundity of Alvin Gouldner's expression, 'welfarewarfare state': an unprecedented expansion in the capacities of various parts of the globe for widespread ...
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... 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out of which all subsequent social understandings must emerge. Perhaps that is also why the 'critical' posture of social science typically feeds off the world ...
... 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out of which all subsequent social understandings must emerge. Perhaps that is also why the 'critical' posture of social science typically feeds off the world ...
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... 20th century came to a close, both empiricists and theorists drew increasing attention to the indeterminate and permeable boundaries of 'society', often in the spirit of heralding a 'postmodern' or 'nonmodern' condition that replaces ...
... 20th century came to a close, both empiricists and theorists drew increasing attention to the indeterminate and permeable boundaries of 'society', often in the spirit of heralding a 'postmodern' or 'nonmodern' condition that replaces ...
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... centuries (Anderson, 1983). On the other hand, more subtly – but I believe more profoundly – postmodernism has reopened the door to reducing the normative to ... century and was rapidly disintegrating as the 20th century wore on (Foucault,
... centuries (Anderson, 1983). On the other hand, more subtly – but I believe more profoundly – postmodernism has reopened the door to reducing the normative to ... century and was rapidly disintegrating as the 20th century wore on (Foucault,
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Steve Fuller. was rapidly disintegrating as the 20th century wore on (Foucault, 1970). Far from being an integrated entity, let alone one possessing an immutable essence, the 'human' was for Foucault a temporarily stable convergence of ...
Steve Fuller. was rapidly disintegrating as the 20th century wore on (Foucault, 1970). Far from being an integrated entity, let alone one possessing an immutable essence, the 'human' was for Foucault a temporarily stable convergence of ...
Contents
Sociology | |
The Biological Challenge to Social Science | |
Today | |
The Struggle | |
Who or What Deserves Our Sympathy? | |
Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times | |
Understanding the Fundamentalist Backlash against Secularism | |
The Darwinian Turn in Development Policy | |
Might we become Nazis in Paradise? | |
Is there no Escape from Human Nature? | |
References | |
Index | |
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