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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... Enlightenment promise of creating a 'heaven on earth'. This vivid, perhaps even scary, turn of phrase refers to the systematic secularization and scientization of monotheism, which privileges human beings as created in the image and ...
... Enlightenment promise of creating a 'heaven on earth'. This vivid, perhaps even scary, turn of phrase refers to the systematic secularization and scientization of monotheism, which privileges human beings as created in the image and ...
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... not realizing that it too is supposed to be superseded by a more comprehensive normative sensibility. At risk, if not lost, in the Foucaultian demotion of dialectics is a rather deep Enlightenment idea – itself a secularization of the.
... not realizing that it too is supposed to be superseded by a more comprehensive normative sensibility. At risk, if not lost, in the Foucaultian demotion of dialectics is a rather deep Enlightenment idea – itself a secularization of the.
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... Enlightenment proposed a more dynamic and even selfdestructive sense of domination that has inspired the full range of leftleaning politics from liberal policies of expanding the electoral franchise to more explicitly socialist policies ...
... Enlightenment proposed a more dynamic and even selfdestructive sense of domination that has inspired the full range of leftleaning politics from liberal policies of expanding the electoral franchise to more explicitly socialist policies ...
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... Enlightenment, that is, when 'civil society' was still an object of natural history (as opposed to social engineering) and before nationbuilding became an expectation of statecraft. Eschewing all mathematical techniques, especially ...
... Enlightenment, that is, when 'civil society' was still an object of natural history (as opposed to social engineering) and before nationbuilding became an expectation of statecraft. Eschewing all mathematical techniques, especially ...
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... Enlightenment legacy of which the nationstate and its agencies – not least universities – have been the main legal executors. However, the aspiration to become human need not be realized by Homo sapiens. History has thrown up many ways ...
... Enlightenment legacy of which the nationstate and its agencies – not least universities – have been the main legal executors. However, the aspiration to become human need not be realized by Homo sapiens. History has thrown up many ways ...
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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