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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... Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times 11 The Coming WorldHistoric Struggle in Science and Religion 12 ...
... Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times 11 The Coming WorldHistoric Struggle in Science and Religion 12 ...
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... Darwinism, but its early sociologists took it in rather disparate scientific and political directions, as exemplified by the laissezfaire capitalism of William Graham Sumner, the populist eugenicism of Edward A. Ross, the symbolic ...
... Darwinism, but its early sociologists took it in rather disparate scientific and political directions, as exemplified by the laissezfaire capitalism of William Graham Sumner, the populist eugenicism of Edward A. Ross, the symbolic ...
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... Darwinists call 'natural selection'. These socially constructed categories of selection then become the primary sources of personal identity and the terms in which survival is redefined. A roughandready mark of the human is that people ...
... Darwinists call 'natural selection'. These socially constructed categories of selection then become the primary sources of personal identity and the terms in which survival is redefined. A roughandready mark of the human is that people ...
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... with which we can do no better than 'cope', were thus treated as challenges we might overcome by systematic inquiry and collective action. Indeed, Darwin's staunchest contemporary defender, Thomas Henry Huxley, held.
... with which we can do no better than 'cope', were thus treated as challenges we might overcome by systematic inquiry and collective action. Indeed, Darwin's staunchest contemporary defender, Thomas Henry Huxley, held.
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Steve Fuller. action. Indeed, Darwin's staunchest contemporary defender, Thomas Henry Huxley, held precisely this view – that an 'evolutionary ethics' of the sort promoted by Herbert Spencer is a nonstarter because humanity is ...
Steve Fuller. action. Indeed, Darwin's staunchest contemporary defender, Thomas Henry Huxley, held precisely this view – that an 'evolutionary ethics' of the sort promoted by Herbert Spencer is a nonstarter because humanity is ...
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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