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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... political sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies, his allergy to trendy academic Newspeak (with structuralfunctionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to ...
... political sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies, his allergy to trendy academic Newspeak (with structuralfunctionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to ...
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... political action? Why have we longed to change the world and not simply cope with it? To me these are the questions that define the legitimacy of the social sciences, and the sociology of knowledge deserves credit for having ...
... political action? Why have we longed to change the world and not simply cope with it? To me these are the questions that define the legitimacy of the social sciences, and the sociology of knowledge deserves credit for having ...
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... political and philosophical sides of the same worldhistoric movement. In Chapter 2, I sketch the world we are on the verge of losing, one that joins the social sciences and socialism together in the project of turning Homo sapiens into ...
... political and philosophical sides of the same worldhistoric movement. In Chapter 2, I sketch the world we are on the verge of losing, one that joins the social sciences and socialism together in the project of turning Homo sapiens into ...
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... political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals (Homo sapiens) closer to divine salvation. The second ...
... political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals (Homo sapiens) closer to divine salvation. The second ...
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... Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both sides of the issue before concluding that, contrary to Mrs Thatcher's assertion, society does indeed exist. While Barry may ...
... Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both sides of the issue before concluding that, contrary to Mrs Thatcher's assertion, society does indeed exist. While Barry may ...
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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