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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... sense of just how much the world has changed since Mills' day can be gleaned by glancing at the terms and definitions listed in this book's Glossary, only about half of which he would recognize. I have delivered parts of this book on ...
... sense of just how much the world has changed since Mills' day can be gleaned by glancing at the terms and definitions listed in this book's Glossary, only about half of which he would recognize. I have delivered parts of this book on ...
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... sense data, explicit logic and verifiable procedures, truth was often delegated to divinely anointed experts, if it did not elude human comprehension altogether. In a time when the distinctiveness of humanity is itself at risk, it ...
... sense data, explicit logic and verifiable procedures, truth was often delegated to divinely anointed experts, if it did not elude human comprehension altogether. In a time when the distinctiveness of humanity is itself at risk, it ...
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... sense of location and destination in history. If people's minds simply reflected their environments, there would be no need for the sociology of knowledge. Empiricism or perhaps phenomenology would do the trick. However, people are ...
... sense of location and destination in history. If people's minds simply reflected their environments, there would be no need for the sociology of knowledge. Empiricism or perhaps phenomenology would do the trick. However, people are ...
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... sense of 'social selection': religious, academic and political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals ...
... sense of 'social selection': religious, academic and political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals ...
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... sense over the previous 150 years, with the ascendancy of nationstates in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse peoples in terms of a set of subsystems, each fulfilling an essential social function, to ...
... sense over the previous 150 years, with the ascendancy of nationstates in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse peoples in terms of a set of subsystems, each fulfilling an essential social function, to ...
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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