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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... Biological Challenge to Social Science 7 The Hidden Biological Past of Classical Social Theory 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today 9 Beware of Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's ...
... Biological Challenge to Social Science 7 The Hidden Biological Past of Classical Social Theory 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today 9 Beware of Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's ...
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... biology has influenced and challenged the social sciences. Chapter 7 shows how certain biological views have been presupposed, sometimes tacitly and often analogically, by the main strands of the sociological tradition. Chapter 8 brings ...
... biology has influenced and challenged the social sciences. Chapter 7 shows how certain biological views have been presupposed, sometimes tacitly and often analogically, by the main strands of the sociological tradition. Chapter 8 brings ...
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Steve Fuller. incorporating their findings. Instead an independent sociological understanding of biological knowledge is required, especially given the rise of 'bioprospecting', a heady mix of molecular biology, medical concern and ...
Steve Fuller. incorporating their findings. Instead an independent sociological understanding of biological knowledge is required, especially given the rise of 'bioprospecting', a heady mix of molecular biology, medical concern and ...
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... biological sciences can explain social life. In particular, I do not deny the presumptive basis for reducing sociology to biology, namely, that all social life, regardless of species, began from transactions among individuals whose ...
... biological sciences can explain social life. In particular, I do not deny the presumptive basis for reducing sociology to biology, namely, that all social life, regardless of species, began from transactions among individuals whose ...
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... biological standpoint, are by no means the fittest. In his 1893 Romanes Lecture, Huxley memorably claimed that the human condition was not about 'survival of the fittest' but 'the fitting of as many as can survive'. We shall explore ...
... biological standpoint, are by no means the fittest. In his 1893 Romanes Lecture, Huxley memorably claimed that the human condition was not about 'survival of the fittest' but 'the fitting of as many as can survive'. We shall explore ...
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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