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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... Weber originally called the 'disenchantment of the world'. We should not forget that what is often derided as the 'instrumentalist' and 'positivist' approach to science represented by Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte and, perhaps more ...
... Weber originally called the 'disenchantment of the world'. We should not forget that what is often derided as the 'instrumentalist' and 'positivist' approach to science represented by Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte and, perhaps more ...
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... Weber and Émile Durkheim (and perhaps one or two others), whereby the understanding of European reality in the first decade of the dearly departed 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out of which ...
... Weber and Émile Durkheim (and perhaps one or two others), whereby the understanding of European reality in the first decade of the dearly departed 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out of which ...
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... Weber and Durkheim simply thought they were doing different things. Theirs was a posthumous Americanstyle shotgun wedding ministered by Parsons (1937). To many Germans of Weber's generation, 'sociology' – with which Durkheim happily ...
... Weber and Durkheim simply thought they were doing different things. Theirs was a posthumous Americanstyle shotgun wedding ministered by Parsons (1937). To many Germans of Weber's generation, 'sociology' – with which Durkheim happily ...
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... Weber could have finally agreed on the value of the term 'sociology' – if only to remind social researchers who ... Weber's contributions to the foundation of sociology appear Janusfaced because of the radically different visions of ...
... Weber could have finally agreed on the value of the term 'sociology' – if only to remind social researchers who ... Weber's contributions to the foundation of sociology appear Janusfaced because of the radically different visions of ...
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... Weber divide in ontological terms as 'structure' versus 'agency' (Giddens, 1979). An academically domesticated Karl Marx was inserted somewhat desperately into the breach as a possible basis for synthesis, given the 'agentic' (a.k.a. ...
... Weber divide in ontological terms as 'structure' versus 'agency' (Giddens, 1979). An academically domesticated Karl Marx was inserted somewhat desperately into the breach as a possible basis for synthesis, given the 'agentic' (a.k.a. ...
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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