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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... positivist' approach to science represented by Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte and, perhaps more controversially ... positivism paved the road to validity with sense data, explicit logic and verifiable procedures, truth was often delegated ...
... positivist' approach to science represented by Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte and, perhaps more controversially ... positivism paved the road to validity with sense data, explicit logic and verifiable procedures, truth was often delegated ...
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... 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 phrase from ...
... 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 phrase from ...
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... positivism is neither much seen nor heralded anymore. However, as I shall now endeavour to show, it deserves to be recovered as part of the new sociological imagination. PART ONE DESPERATELY SEEKING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
... positivism is neither much seen nor heralded anymore. However, as I shall now endeavour to show, it deserves to be recovered as part of the new sociological imagination. PART ONE DESPERATELY SEEKING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
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... positivists and frequented by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper (Hacohen, 2000: Chapter 5; Ebenstein, 2001: Chapter 5). These two Vienna Circles seeded the metascientific views of, respectively, the 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives in ...
... positivists and frequented by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper (Hacohen, 2000: Chapter 5; Ebenstein, 2001: Chapter 5). These two Vienna Circles seeded the metascientific views of, respectively, the 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives in ...
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... positivists were known in their heyday as the 'Red Vienna Circle' because its membership featured such cardcarrying socialists as Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, who held that societies could be modelled and regulated like closed ...
... positivists were known in their heyday as the 'Red Vienna Circle' because its membership featured such cardcarrying socialists as Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, who held that societies could be modelled and regulated like closed ...
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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