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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... presupposed, sometimes tacitly and often analogically, by the main strands of the sociological tradition. Chapter 8 brings the matter uptodate by identifying better and worse ways for social scientists to engage with human biology. The ...
... presupposed, sometimes tacitly and often analogically, by the main strands of the sociological tradition. Chapter 8 brings the matter uptodate by identifying better and worse ways for social scientists to engage with human biology. The ...
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... presupposes a strong sense of 'normativity', which after Michel Foucault has acquired a negative connotation that Durkheim would not have recognized. Instead of a Durkheimian focus on the sense of inclusiveness fostered by the public ...
... presupposes a strong sense of 'normativity', which after Michel Foucault has acquired a negative connotation that Durkheim would not have recognized. Instead of a Durkheimian focus on the sense of inclusiveness fostered by the public ...
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... presupposed that everything can be studied in terms of their 'external relations' with other things, without considering their 'inner life' (or soul). On the other hand, the humanities traditionally have presupposed a strong hierarchy ...
... presupposed that everything can be studied in terms of their 'external relations' with other things, without considering their 'inner life' (or soul). On the other hand, the humanities traditionally have presupposed a strong hierarchy ...
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... presupposes a more reflexive attitude toward the history of science: as the natural sciences have extended their sphere of applicability, they have also learnt more about how scientific inquiry itself works. Thus, a secondorder ...
... presupposes a more reflexive attitude toward the history of science: as the natural sciences have extended their sphere of applicability, they have also learnt more about how scientific inquiry itself works. Thus, a secondorder ...
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... presupposes that humanity can collectively transcend the fatalism implied in our mortality as individuals. On the one hand, the appeal to meaning has served to remind wouldbe reformers that effective social change requires recognizing ...
... presupposes that humanity can collectively transcend the fatalism implied in our mortality as individuals. On the one hand, the appeal to meaning has served to remind wouldbe reformers that effective social change requires recognizing ...
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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