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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... the one hand, before the sociologically induced field of cultural studies, humanists have found only a minority of humans fit to exercise dominion, namely, the authors and authorized interpreters of the 'classics'. On. Introduction.
... the one hand, before the sociologically induced field of cultural studies, humanists have found only a minority of humans fit to exercise dominion, namely, the authors and authorized interpreters of the 'classics'. On. Introduction.
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... cultures, the science in which is historically informed by monotheism, a phenomenon whose centrality to the sociological tradition is too often overlooked. However, the Darwinian Left marks a significant move in what I call a more ...
... cultures, the science in which is historically informed by monotheism, a phenomenon whose centrality to the sociological tradition is too often overlooked. However, the Darwinian Left marks a significant move in what I call a more ...
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... culture' that reasserts a robust conception of human nature that is brandished at least as a crucifix, if not wielded as a dagger, in our recoiling faces (Brockman, 1995, www.edge.org). Let's hope I have described no more than the ...
... culture' that reasserts a robust conception of human nature that is brandished at least as a crucifix, if not wielded as a dagger, in our recoiling faces (Brockman, 1995, www.edge.org). Let's hope I have described no more than the ...
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... culture' and toward which even sociologists are gradually moving, bioliberalism. Bioliberalism consists of a politically devolved eugenics policy that encourages the casualization of the human condition, by which I mean the tendency to ...
... culture' and toward which even sociologists are gradually moving, bioliberalism. Bioliberalism consists of a politically devolved eugenics policy that encourages the casualization of the human condition, by which I mean the tendency to ...
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... culture in that diffuse yet 'empowering' sense that has enabled cultural studies to dominate much of sociology today. (It would be interesting to trace the replacement of 'ideology' by 'culture' in sociology textbooks over the past ...
... culture in that diffuse yet 'empowering' sense that has enabled cultural studies to dominate much of sociology today. (It would be interesting to trace the replacement of 'ideology' by 'culture' in sociology textbooks over the past ...
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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