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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... Secularized: The Darwinian Turn in Development Policy 14 Might we become Nazis in Paradise? Conclusion: Is there no Escape from Human Nature? Glossary References Index Preface Several years ago Sujatha Raman urged me to write.
... Secularized: The Darwinian Turn in Development Policy 14 Might we become Nazis in Paradise? Conclusion: Is there no Escape from Human Nature? Glossary References Index Preface Several years ago Sujatha Raman urged me to write.
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... Nazis not embarked on the Holocaust, they might well have brought us closer to the 'paradise' advanced by today's ecological activists. The book concludes by arguing that the Darwinian Left and the affiliated sciences of sociobiology ...
... Nazis not embarked on the Holocaust, they might well have brought us closer to the 'paradise' advanced by today's ecological activists. The book concludes by arguing that the Darwinian Left and the affiliated sciences of sociobiology ...
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... Nazi Germany. We live in a time when an unprecedented openness to the inclusion of nonhuman members in the social order is combined with a heightened sensitivity to the difference between 'normal' and 'pathological' members – especially ...
... Nazi Germany. We live in a time when an unprecedented openness to the inclusion of nonhuman members in the social order is combined with a heightened sensitivity to the difference between 'normal' and 'pathological' members – especially ...
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... contraception and abortion – the recurrence of what they regarded as evolutionary throwbacks. As a eugenics policy, biometrics was, at once, epistemically more invasive and ontologically less violent than the Nazis who adhered to the.
... contraception and abortion – the recurrence of what they regarded as evolutionary throwbacks. As a eugenics policy, biometrics was, at once, epistemically more invasive and ontologically less violent than the Nazis who adhered to the.
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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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