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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... liberal policies of expanding the electoral franchise to more explicitly socialist policies for redistributing wealth in a productive society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have ...
... liberal policies of expanding the electoral franchise to more explicitly socialist policies for redistributing wealth in a productive society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have ...
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... Liberal Member of Parliament in the Gladstone era, where he promoted the idea that imperialism was the best vehicle for extending freedom across the globe. Mill had no qualms about paving the straightest path to achieving the project of ...
... Liberal Member of Parliament in the Gladstone era, where he promoted the idea that imperialism was the best vehicle for extending freedom across the globe. Mill had no qualms about paving the straightest path to achieving the project of ...
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... liberals and what remains of the Marxists. Rifkin regards this realignment as new, yet in fact it marks a return to the ideological state of play during the Industrial Revolution before the rise of socialism. The early 19th century ...
... liberals and what remains of the Marxists. Rifkin regards this realignment as new, yet in fact it marks a return to the ideological state of play during the Industrial Revolution before the rise of socialism. The early 19th century ...
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... Liberals wanted to sever people's hereditary ties to the land that legally inhibited the construction of factories ... Liberalism Species egalitarian 21st century 19th century Ecologism Liberalism In the 21st century, the object of ...
... Liberals wanted to sever people's hereditary ties to the land that legally inhibited the construction of factories ... Liberalism Species egalitarian 21st century 19th century Ecologism Liberalism In the 21st century, the object of ...
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... liberal voluntarism. For the first time, a form of politics took seriously the idea – at least as a regulative ideal of collective action – that all people belonged equally to Homo sapiens. Socialism's inegalitarian roots remain latent ...
... liberal voluntarism. For the first time, a form of politics took seriously the idea – at least as a regulative ideal of collective action – that all people belonged equally to Homo sapiens. Socialism's inegalitarian roots remain latent ...
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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