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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... 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 controversially ...
... 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 controversially ...
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... called 'deviance', which retain their traditional popularity, though the word nowadays appears in scare quotes and researchers wince at the 'social problems' perspective from which the field arose. After all, deviance presupposes a ...
... called 'deviance', which retain their traditional popularity, though the word nowadays appears in scare quotes and researchers wince at the 'social problems' perspective from which the field arose. After all, deviance presupposes a ...
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... called the 'social distribution of knowledge' in reaction to what he took to be the artificial collectivization of sentiment made possible by the emergence of tabloid newspapers and broadcast radio in the 1920s (Prendergast, 1986) ...
... called the 'social distribution of knowledge' in reaction to what he took to be the artificial collectivization of sentiment made possible by the emergence of tabloid newspapers and broadcast radio in the 1920s (Prendergast, 1986) ...
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... called the 'generalized other' and the existentialist JeanPaul Sartre dubbed the 'subjectwe'. It is also what the classical sociologists held was responsible for large and 'heterogeneous' (often a euphemism for 'indifferent' or 'hostile ...
... called the 'generalized other' and the existentialist JeanPaul Sartre dubbed the 'subjectwe'. It is also what the classical sociologists held was responsible for large and 'heterogeneous' (often a euphemism for 'indifferent' or 'hostile ...
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... called, with Hitler and Stalin in mind, 'The Big Lie'. So, when Latour (1993) boldly pronounces, 'We have never been modern', he is converting presentday disappointment and, above all, impatience into one big and long mistake that ...
... called, with Hitler and Stalin in mind, 'The Big Lie'. So, when Latour (1993) boldly pronounces, 'We have never been modern', he is converting presentday disappointment and, above all, impatience into one big and long mistake that ...
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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