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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... behaviour that deviated from a norm upheld by the state for its own purposes. Tarde attempted to portray Durkheim as an academic naïf in matters of policy who took the normative imperatives of the Third Republic too much at face value ...
... behaviour that deviated from a norm upheld by the state for its own purposes. Tarde attempted to portray Durkheim as an academic naïf in matters of policy who took the normative imperatives of the Third Republic too much at face value ...
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... 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 'society' in the modern sense, an Enlightenment legacy of which ...
... 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 'society' in the modern sense, an Enlightenment legacy of which ...
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... natural' forms of social life. However, this traditionally rightwing message is now aligned with recent 'progressive' sciences of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural genetics. The normative side of this shift is most.
... natural' forms of social life. However, this traditionally rightwing message is now aligned with recent 'progressive' sciences of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural genetics. The normative side of this shift is most.
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Steve Fuller. behavioural genetics. The normative side of this shift is most evident in the conversion of 'Red' to 'Green' in the politics of selfavowed progressive thinkers and politicians. Thus, the older focus on the alleviation of ...
Steve Fuller. behavioural genetics. The normative side of this shift is most evident in the conversion of 'Red' to 'Green' in the politics of selfavowed progressive thinkers and politicians. Thus, the older focus on the alleviation of ...
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... behaviour. Indeed, today's postmodern purveyors of identity politics, who aspire to a 'separate but equal' multiculturalism, say much the same thing but appear more politically radical because they are writing after an additional 150 ...
... behaviour. Indeed, today's postmodern purveyors of identity politics, who aspire to a 'separate but equal' multiculturalism, say much the same thing but appear more politically radical because they are writing after an additional 150 ...
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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