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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... environments, there would be no need for the sociology of knowledge. Empiricism or perhaps phenomenology would do the trick. However, people are generally dissatisfied with where they find themselves and aspire to a better state. Beyond ...
... environments, there would be no need for the sociology of knowledge. Empiricism or perhaps phenomenology would do the trick. However, people are generally dissatisfied with where they find themselves and aspire to a better state. Beyond ...
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... environment sufficiently to neutralize, and sometimes reverse, the effects of what Darwinists call 'natural selection'. These socially constructed categories of selection then become the primary sources of personal identity and the ...
... environment sufficiently to neutralize, and sometimes reverse, the effects of what Darwinists call 'natural selection'. These socially constructed categories of selection then become the primary sources of personal identity and the ...
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... environment to enable the flourishing of those who, from a strictly biological standpoint, are by no means the fittest. In his 1893 Romanes Lecture, Huxley memorably claimed that the human condition was not about 'survival of the ...
... environment to enable the flourishing of those who, from a strictly biological standpoint, are by no means the fittest. In his 1893 Romanes Lecture, Huxley memorably claimed that the human condition was not about 'survival of the ...
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... environment at large. At a superficial level, this shift marks an increase in ambition. However, at a deeper level ... environments (Hoffman, 1997). Lurking behind this 'greening' of the political left is the most fundamental challenge ...
... environment at large. At a superficial level, this shift marks an increase in ambition. However, at a deeper level ... environments (Hoffman, 1997). Lurking behind this 'greening' of the political left is the most fundamental challenge ...
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... environments' in the science of racial hygiene that peaked in Nazi Germany. We live in a time when an unprecedented openness to the inclusion of nonhuman members in the social order is combined with a heightened sensitivity to the ...
... environments' in the science of racial hygiene that peaked in Nazi Germany. We live in a time when an unprecedented openness to the inclusion of nonhuman members in the social order is combined with a heightened sensitivity to 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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