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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... capitalist and socialist excesses, even in nations with strong libertarian traditions like the UK and USA. I chart and diagnose the decline of this sensibility in order to identify new vistas for a rejuvenated sense of 'society' and a ...
... capitalist and socialist excesses, even in nations with strong libertarian traditions like the UK and USA. I chart and diagnose the decline of this sensibility in order to identify new vistas for a rejuvenated sense of 'society' and a ...
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... capitalism of William Graham Sumner, the populist eugenicism of Edward A. Ross, the symbolic interactionism of George Herbert Mead and the ecological segregationism of Robert Park (Hofstadter, 1955). Finally, Chapter 6 illustrates how ...
... capitalism of William Graham Sumner, the populist eugenicism of Edward A. Ross, the symbolic interactionism of George Herbert Mead and the ecological segregationism of Robert Park (Hofstadter, 1955). Finally, Chapter 6 illustrates how ...
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... capitalism. Chapter 9 introduces Peter Singer's attempt to replace Marx with Darwin as the scientific foundation of progressive politics in an era that has witnessed the reversal of socialism's fortunes. This is the point at which the ...
... capitalism. Chapter 9 introduces Peter Singer's attempt to replace Marx with Darwin as the scientific foundation of progressive politics in an era that has witnessed the reversal of socialism's fortunes. This is the point at which the ...
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... capitalist flows. In this respect, 'identity politics' has filled the ideological vacuum left by the decline of nationalism (Castells, 1998). Although these new ideas tend to be exchanged in the currency of thermodynamics and other ...
... capitalist flows. In this respect, 'identity politics' has filled the ideological vacuum left by the decline of nationalism (Castells, 1998). Although these new ideas tend to be exchanged in the currency of thermodynamics and other ...
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... capitalists and socialists concurred that the right political economy would enable everyone to function as fullfledged members of society. Thus, the increasing political and economic disparities in advanced capitalist societies ...
... capitalists and socialists concurred that the right political economy would enable everyone to function as fullfledged members of society. Thus, the increasing political and economic disparities in advanced capitalist societies ...
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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