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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... reproduction by teaching the next generation of French teachers, while Weber periodically offered himself as a political player, culminating in a role in drafting Germany's first republican constitution. These alternative visions of ...
... reproduction by teaching the next generation of French teachers, while Weber periodically offered himself as a political player, culminating in a role in drafting Germany's first republican constitution. These alternative visions of ...
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... reproductive success as the key to evolution provided a natural scientific interpretation of fate – as 'survival' – that humanists had previously lacked. The standard social science response to this pincer attack has been to convert ...
... reproductive success as the key to evolution provided a natural scientific interpretation of fate – as 'survival' – that humanists had previously lacked. The standard social science response to this pincer attack has been to convert ...
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... reproduce dependency relations, whereas liberals could read it as a call for the free exchange of goods and services. Both conservatives and liberals imagined that a legally sanctioned system of stratification would result in either ...
... reproduce dependency relations, whereas liberals could read it as a call for the free exchange of goods and services. Both conservatives and liberals imagined that a legally sanctioned system of stratification would result in either ...
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... reproduction of feudal dependency relations between the rich and the poor. To destabilize this hierarchy would be to incur untold damage, including unnecessary death. But for the liberals the far greater cost of stability was that the ...
... reproduction of feudal dependency relations between the rich and the poor. To destabilize this hierarchy would be to incur untold damage, including unnecessary death. But for the liberals the far greater cost of stability was that the ...
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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