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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... individuals whose identities rest on family membership. According to this logic, social formations that behave most like families (i.e. protoracially) are most likely to survive. An example of this line of thought is that states fail ...
... individuals whose identities rest on family membership. According to this logic, social formations that behave most like families (i.e. protoracially) are most likely to survive. An example of this line of thought is that states fail ...
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... individuals – such as voting, tax payment and military service – that compels them to engage in activities whose main beneficiaries range significantly beyond oneself and one's kin. Finally, before embarking on the task before us, some ...
... individuals – such as voting, tax payment and military service – that compels them to engage in activities whose main beneficiaries range significantly beyond oneself and one's kin. Finally, before embarking on the task before us, some ...
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... individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour ...
... individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour ...
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... individuals best understood through various legal and economic arrangements that enable them to do things they could not do on their own – such as turn Germany over the course of a generation into the powerhouse of Europe. Where ...
... individuals best understood through various legal and economic arrangements that enable them to do things they could not do on their own – such as turn Germany over the course of a generation into the powerhouse of Europe. Where ...
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... individual and collective perceptions (Platt, 1996: Chapter 3). Thus, sociology became the science of and for the welfare ... individuals (cf. Peukert, 1993: Chapter 8). Hayek aside, perhaps the most influential of this group was the ...
... individual and collective perceptions (Platt, 1996: Chapter 3). Thus, sociology became the science of and for the welfare ... individuals (cf. Peukert, 1993: Chapter 8). Hayek aside, perhaps the most influential of this group was 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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