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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... animal and more broadly ecological concerns has coincided with a contraction of the public funding base for human welfare. Chapter 5 highlights the overlooked contribution of the British sociological tradition to this discussion. Of the ...
... animal and more broadly ecological concerns has coincided with a contraction of the public funding base for human welfare. Chapter 5 highlights the overlooked contribution of the British sociological tradition to this discussion. Of the ...
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... animals 'human' is their participation in largescale corporate projects that defy the gene's eyeview of the world, largely because they have managed to control their selection environment sufficiently to neutralize, and sometimes ...
... animals 'human' is their participation in largescale corporate projects that defy the gene's eyeview of the world, largely because they have managed to control their selection environment sufficiently to neutralize, and sometimes ...
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... animal in a certain range of ways. Our genetic makeup and default behavioural patterns provide only the raw material out of which 'human beings' may be politically and scientifically constructed. This is the primary normative meaning of ...
... animal in a certain range of ways. Our genetic makeup and default behavioural patterns provide only the raw material out of which 'human beings' may be politically and scientifically constructed. This is the primary normative meaning of ...
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... animals and the equality of all humans in the eyes of God – have anchored subsequent discussion about the distinctiveness of the social sciences from the other two great bodies of academic knowledge, the natural sciences and the ...
... animals and the equality of all humans in the eyes of God – have anchored subsequent discussion about the distinctiveness of the social sciences from the other two great bodies of academic knowledge, the natural sciences and the ...
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... animal sensation; on the other, the humanities have tried to reduce welfare to an artifice designed to cheat fate. The attack had already begun by the late 19th century, as the Darwinian focus on differential reproductive success as the ...
... animal sensation; on the other, the humanities have tried to reduce welfare to an artifice designed to cheat fate. The attack had already begun by the late 19th century, as the Darwinian focus on differential reproductive success as the ...
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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