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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... nationstates in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse peoples in terms of a set of subsystems, each fulfilling an essential social function, to which the standardissue sociology textbook dutifully ...
... nationstates in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse peoples in terms of a set of subsystems, each fulfilling an essential social function, to which the standardissue sociology textbook dutifully ...
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... nationstates, had been humiliated in the war, which suggested its decline, even degeneration – as opposed to the vitality displayed by the recently unified Germany. Not surprisingly, then, Durkheim regarded 'society' as an organism ...
... nationstates, had been humiliated in the war, which suggested its decline, even degeneration – as opposed to the vitality displayed by the recently unified Germany. Not surprisingly, then, Durkheim regarded 'society' as an organism ...
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... nationstate and its agencies – not least universities – have been the main legal executors. However, the aspiration to become human need not be realized by Homo sapiens. History has thrown up many ways of retarding and even preempting ...
... nationstate and its agencies – not least universities – have been the main legal executors. However, the aspiration to become human need not be realized by Homo sapiens. History has thrown up many ways of retarding and even preempting ...
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... nationstate in the 19th and 20th centuries. (It is also the vision of social science that my own project of social epistemology seeks to uphold: cf. Fuller, 1988.) Generally speaking, social scientists have provided a layer of mediation ...
... nationstate in the 19th and 20th centuries. (It is also the vision of social science that my own project of social epistemology seeks to uphold: cf. Fuller, 1988.) Generally speaking, social scientists have provided a layer of mediation ...
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... nationstates, designed to infuse a sense of social solidarity among biologically unrelated individuals (i.e. 'citizens') by providing them with health, education and even minimal subsistence in return for political participation – most ...
... nationstates, designed to infuse a sense of social solidarity among biologically unrelated individuals (i.e. 'citizens') by providing them with health, education and even minimal subsistence in return for political participation – most ...
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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