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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... distinctions monotheistic societies have introduced to discriminate humans from nonhumans – what Max Weber originally called the 'disenchantment of the world'. We should not forget that what is often derided as the 'instrumentalist' and ...
... distinctions monotheistic societies have introduced to discriminate humans from nonhumans – what Max Weber originally called the 'disenchantment of the world'. We should not forget that what is often derided as the 'instrumentalist' and ...
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... distinction between Homo sapiens and other animals, such that the concept of humanity loses its metaphysical grounding and moral priority. Thus, depending on their ability to respond to the demands of the environment, some people will ...
... distinction between Homo sapiens and other animals, such that the concept of humanity loses its metaphysical grounding and moral priority. Thus, depending on their ability to respond to the demands of the environment, some people will ...
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... distinction, Gemeinschaft ('community') and Gesellschaft ('society'), as respectively the conservative and the liberal pole out of which this newly integrated conception of society was forged. A legal scholar by training, Tönnies ...
... distinction, Gemeinschaft ('community') and Gesellschaft ('society'), as respectively the conservative and the liberal pole out of which this newly integrated conception of society was forged. A legal scholar by training, Tönnies ...
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Steve Fuller. distinction is grounded in this contrast, which also persists in folk understandings of biologically acquired traits as somehow more basic and durable than socially acquired ones. Missing from these two categories was an ...
Steve Fuller. distinction is grounded in this contrast, which also persists in folk understandings of biologically acquired traits as somehow more basic and durable than socially acquired ones. Missing from these two categories was an ...
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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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