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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... original idea was for me to write a 21st century version of C. Wright Mills' 1959 classic, The Sociological Imagination. This book shares Mills' somewhat paranoid political sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies ...
... original idea was for me to write a 21st century version of C. Wright Mills' 1959 classic, The Sociological Imagination. This book shares Mills' somewhat paranoid political sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies ...
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... original logical positivists, Otto Neurath, had proposed in the aftermath of the First World War that the redistributivist ethic associated with a wartime economy could be justified even without the sense of 'permanent emergency', a ...
... original logical positivists, Otto Neurath, had proposed in the aftermath of the First World War that the redistributivist ethic associated with a wartime economy could be justified even without the sense of 'permanent emergency', a ...
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... original normative force, as disciplinary practitioners see themselves contributing to the constitution of the societies they study, typically by raising subjects' collective selfconsciousness. Such an account most naturally fits ...
... original normative force, as disciplinary practitioners see themselves contributing to the constitution of the societies they study, typically by raising subjects' collective selfconsciousness. Such an account most naturally fits ...
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... original thinker in this tradition was James Coleman. In contrast, the members of the Mises Circle wanted to turn the clock back to the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, that is, when 'civil society' was still an object of natural ...
... original thinker in this tradition was James Coleman. In contrast, the members of the Mises Circle wanted to turn the clock back to the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, that is, when 'civil society' was still an object of natural ...
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... original philosopher of culture, Johann Gottfried von Herder, spoke of society as imposing a 'second nature'. When it comes to the human condition, the two great academic cultures prefer to study humanity without having to mingle with ...
... original philosopher of culture, Johann Gottfried von Herder, spoke of society as imposing a 'second nature'. When it comes to the human condition, the two great academic cultures prefer to study humanity without having to mingle with ...
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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