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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Steve Fuller. Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead Printed on paper from sustainable resources Contents Preface Introduction 1 Tales of the Academic Undead: The.
Steve Fuller. Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead Printed on paper from sustainable resources Contents Preface Introduction 1 Tales of the Academic Undead: The.
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Steve Fuller. Contents. Preface Introduction 1 Tales of the Academic Undead: The Mysterious Disappearance of Society The Social Sciences at Risk: A Brief History of the Stakes Socialism as the Elusive Synthesis at the Heart of Social ...
Steve Fuller. Contents. Preface Introduction 1 Tales of the Academic Undead: The Mysterious Disappearance of Society The Social Sciences at Risk: A Brief History of the Stakes Socialism as the Elusive Synthesis at the Heart of Social ...
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... academic Newspeak (with structuralfunctionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to confronting the (now very different) future that awaits us. A sense of just how much the world has ...
... academic Newspeak (with structuralfunctionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to confronting the (now very different) future that awaits us. A sense of just how much the world has ...
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... academic and political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals (Homo sapiens) closer to divine ...
... academic and political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals (Homo sapiens) closer to divine ...
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Steve Fuller. PART ONE DESPERATELY SEEKING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY ONE Tales of the Academic Undead The Mysterious Disappearance of. Part One: Desperately Seeking Sociology in the 21st Century.
Steve Fuller. PART ONE DESPERATELY SEEKING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY ONE Tales of the Academic Undead The Mysterious Disappearance of. Part One: Desperately Seeking Sociology in the 21st Century.
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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