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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... regarded 'society' as an organism whose ailments were explicable and treatable in medical terms, while Weber saw 'society' as an artificial configuration of individuals best understood through various legal and economic arrangements ...
... regarded 'society' as an organism whose ailments were explicable and treatable in medical terms, while Weber saw 'society' as an artificial configuration of individuals best understood through various legal and economic arrangements ...
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... regarded as joined in common cause against the Parsonian structuralfunctionalist sociology establishment, it was common to read the poststructuralist 'deconstruct' to mean the Marxist 'demystify'. In this context, the promiscuous use of ...
... regarded as joined in common cause against the Parsonian structuralfunctionalist sociology establishment, it was common to read the poststructuralist 'deconstruct' to mean the Marxist 'demystify'. In this context, the promiscuous use of ...
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... regarded the incidence of crime as simply behaviour that deviated from a norm upheld by the state for its own purposes. Tarde attempted to portray Durkheim as an academic naïf in matters of policy who took the normative imperatives of ...
... regarded the incidence of crime as simply behaviour that deviated from a norm upheld by the state for its own purposes. Tarde attempted to portray Durkheim as an academic naïf in matters of policy who took the normative imperatives of ...
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... regarded as irreversible features of the human condition, with which we can do no better than 'cope', were thus treated as challenges we might overcome by systematic inquiry and collective action. Indeed, Darwin's staunchest ...
... regarded as irreversible features of the human condition, with which we can do no better than 'cope', were thus treated as challenges we might overcome by systematic inquiry and collective action. Indeed, Darwin's staunchest ...
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... regarded poverty as a retarded state of enterprise from which the poor had to be released. Nowadays the two groups are defined as Ecologists and NeoLiberals, respectively, and their spheres of concern have somewhat expanded. Ecologists ...
... regarded poverty as a retarded state of enterprise from which the poor had to be released. Nowadays the two groups are defined as Ecologists and NeoLiberals, respectively, and their spheres of concern have somewhat expanded. Ecologists ...
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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