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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... ecological concerns has coincided with a contraction of the public funding base for human welfare. Chapter 5 highlights the overlooked contribution of the British sociological tradition to this discussion. Of the major national ...
... ecological concerns has coincided with a contraction of the public funding base for human welfare. Chapter 5 highlights the overlooked contribution of the British sociological tradition to this discussion. Of the major national ...
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... ecological agenda, in which humans play an important but somewhat diminished role. These matters are taken up in Chapter 13. Chapter 14 situates this shift as part of the revival of 'racial hygiene', a biosocial science now discredited ...
... ecological agenda, in which humans play an important but somewhat diminished role. These matters are taken up in Chapter 13. Chapter 14 situates this shift as part of the revival of 'racial hygiene', a biosocial science now discredited ...
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... ecological factors. Of special relevance is the unique position of humans in relation to the Divine Creator, in whose 'image and likeness' Homo sapiens is said to have been created. The two implied theological traits – the separateness ...
... ecological factors. Of special relevance is the unique position of humans in relation to the Divine Creator, in whose 'image and likeness' Homo sapiens is said to have been created. The two implied theological traits – the separateness ...
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... ecology', the virtues of selectively including (and hence excluding) a variety of humans, animals and even machines in the name of some advanced 'hybrid' collective order (Whiteside, 2002). Such 'cyborg worlds', the popular name for ...
... ecology', the virtues of selectively including (and hence excluding) a variety of humans, animals and even machines in the name of some advanced 'hybrid' collective order (Whiteside, 2002). Such 'cyborg worlds', the popular name for ...
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... ecology movement and environmental science, despite in each case the latter's efforts to distance themselves from the former. (What differentiates the ecotwins from the sociotwins, of course, is that politicalscientific support for the ...
... ecology movement and environmental science, despite in each case the latter's efforts to distance themselves from the former. (What differentiates the ecotwins from the sociotwins, of course, is that politicalscientific support for the ...
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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