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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... potentially equal import. Durkheim's and Weber's contributions to the foundation of sociology appear Janusfaced because of the radically different visions of society they inferred from the respective fates of their countries in the ...
... potentially equal import. Durkheim's and Weber's contributions to the foundation of sociology appear Janusfaced because of the radically different visions of society they inferred from the respective fates of their countries in the ...
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... potential, which presumably could be remedied by better crafted legislation and administration. However, the Foucaultians truly came into their own in the 1980s, as faith in the welfare state, and socialist politics more generally ...
... potential, which presumably could be remedied by better crafted legislation and administration. However, the Foucaultians truly came into their own in the 1980s, as faith in the welfare state, and socialist politics more generally ...
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... potentially recalcitrant subjects. Moreover, at a reflexive level, the social scientist is herself subject to a similar sort of capture. The policymaker refuses to interfere with the social scientist in her work, just as the social ...
... potentially recalcitrant subjects. Moreover, at a reflexive level, the social scientist is herself subject to a similar sort of capture. The policymaker refuses to interfere with the social scientist in her work, just as the social ...
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... potentially less controversial: Politics is made easier if one needs to achieve a certain carbon emissions standard – which can be accomplished by whatever means – than a certain level of minimum income, which clearly would require some ...
... potentially less controversial: Politics is made easier if one needs to achieve a certain carbon emissions standard – which can be accomplished by whatever means – than a certain level of minimum income, which clearly would require some ...
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... potential candidates for what scientifically straight ecologists call 'maximally inclusive fitness landscapes'. As we shall see in the final chapter, they have some disturbing precedents in the history of totalitarian politics, not ...
... potential candidates for what scientifically straight ecologists call 'maximally inclusive fitness landscapes'. As we shall see in the final chapter, they have some disturbing precedents in the history of totalitarian politics, not ...
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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