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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... sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies, his allergy to trendy academic Newspeak (with structuralfunctionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to confronting the ...
... sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies, his allergy to trendy academic Newspeak (with structuralfunctionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to confronting the ...
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... sensibility in order to identify new vistas for a rejuvenated sense of 'society' and a science fit to study and minister to it. As of this writing there remains one significant site for the sensibility I seek more generally: the United ...
... sensibility in order to identify new vistas for a rejuvenated sense of 'society' and a science fit to study and minister to it. As of this writing there remains one significant site for the sensibility I seek more generally: the United ...
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... sensibility remains in recent calls for biodiversity and the curtailment of human expansion. Arguing counterfactually, I propose that had the Nazis not embarked on the Holocaust, they might well have brought us closer to the 'paradise ...
... sensibility remains in recent calls for biodiversity and the curtailment of human expansion. Arguing counterfactually, I propose that had the Nazis not embarked on the Holocaust, they might well have brought us closer to the 'paradise ...
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... sensibility, associated with the new 'third culture' and toward which even sociologists are gradually moving, bioliberalism. Bioliberalism consists of a politically devolved eugenics policy that encourages the casualization of the human ...
... sensibility, associated with the new 'third culture' and toward which even sociologists are gradually moving, bioliberalism. Bioliberalism consists of a politically devolved eugenics policy that encourages the casualization of the human ...
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... not realizing that it too is supposed to be superseded by a more comprehensive normative sensibility. At risk, if not lost, in the Foucaultian demotion of dialectics is a rather deep Enlightenment idea – itself a secularization of the.
... not realizing that it too is supposed to be superseded by a more comprehensive normative sensibility. At risk, if not lost, in the Foucaultian demotion of dialectics is a rather deep Enlightenment idea – itself a secularization of 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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