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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... capacities of various parts of the globe for widespread destruction, corresponding to an unprecedented redistribution of political and economic resources both within and across nations. In terms of Realpolitik, the two sides were ...
... capacities of various parts of the globe for widespread destruction, corresponding to an unprecedented redistribution of political and economic resources both within and across nations. In terms of Realpolitik, the two sides were ...
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... capacity of subjects to become other and, ideally, more than they have been, thereby avoiding a complacent pessimism toward the prospects of change. This empowering and progressive side of positivism is neither much seen nor heralded ...
... capacity of subjects to become other and, ideally, more than they have been, thereby avoiding a complacent pessimism toward the prospects of change. This empowering and progressive side of positivism is neither much seen nor heralded ...
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... capacities for action. Thus, Durkheim positioned himself as keeper of the means of societal reproduction by teaching the next generation of French teachers, while Weber periodically offered himself as a political player, culminating in ...
... capacities for action. Thus, Durkheim positioned himself as keeper of the means of societal reproduction by teaching the next generation of French teachers, while Weber periodically offered himself as a political player, culminating in ...
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... of scientific progress, which then feeds back to steer the subsequent course of science. Sociology – as the historically final science – is also the one with the capacity to comprehend all that has gone before it as a coherent.
... of scientific progress, which then feeds back to steer the subsequent course of science. Sociology – as the historically final science – is also the one with the capacity to comprehend all that has gone before it as a coherent.
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... capacities. Nevertheless, 'species egalitarianism' has expanded beyond Peter Singer's 'animal liberation' movement, as greater comparative research into humans and other animals tends to minimize the traditional differences between them ...
... capacities. Nevertheless, 'species egalitarianism' has expanded beyond Peter Singer's 'animal liberation' movement, as greater comparative research into humans and other animals tends to minimize the traditional differences between them ...
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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