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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... 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 Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as ...
... 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 Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as ...
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... classical humanism in the name of a truly 'social science' that would have something to say about, to and for every human. Before reason was 'reduced' to an instrument that could be used by specific people to achieve specific ends, it ...
... classical humanism in the name of a truly 'social science' that would have something to say about, to and for every human. Before reason was 'reduced' to an instrument that could be used by specific people to achieve specific ends, it ...
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... classical sociologists held was responsible for large and 'heterogeneous' (often a euphemism for 'indifferent' or 'hostile') populations identifying equally with that most alienated of collective representations, 'God', who was then ...
... classical sociologists held was responsible for large and 'heterogeneous' (often a euphemism for 'indifferent' or 'hostile') populations identifying equally with that most alienated of collective representations, 'God', who was then ...
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... classical languages at an early age by his father. The crucial intellectual difference between de Tocqueville and Mill is that the former anticipated the Cold War's sense that democracy forces a tradeoff between liberty and equality ...
... classical languages at an early age by his father. The crucial intellectual difference between de Tocqueville and Mill is that the former anticipated the Cold War's sense that democracy forces a tradeoff between liberty and equality ...
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... classical Athens or republican Rome but, in any case, had regressed in the Middle Ages when a Platoinspired hereditary hierarchy was used to protect Christianity from the threat of Islam, which claimed to be its spiritual successor by ...
... classical Athens or republican Rome but, in any case, had regressed in the Middle Ages when a Platoinspired hereditary hierarchy was used to protect Christianity from the threat of Islam, which claimed to be its spiritual successor by ...
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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