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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... simply by pointing to the availability of large research grants and student enrolments. For those solely concerned with maximizing demand, the next question is not how to bolster sociology but how to find more efficient means of meeting ...
... simply by pointing to the availability of large research grants and student enrolments. For those solely concerned with maximizing demand, the next question is not how to bolster sociology but how to find more efficient means of meeting ...
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... simply an abdication of responsibility for the decisionmaking contexts that challenge and define our common humanity. In the pages that follow, the reader will note that I make much of one's attitude towards history. This is in keeping ...
... simply an abdication of responsibility for the decisionmaking contexts that challenge and define our common humanity. In the pages that follow, the reader will note that I make much of one's attitude towards history. This is in keeping ...
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... 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 generally dissatisfied with where they find themselves and aspire to ...
... 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 generally dissatisfied with where they find themselves and aspire to ...
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... simply because the binaries take for granted the legitimacy of sociology, a standpoint that may work with more impressionable undergraduates but is unlikely to persuade those familiar with contemporary intellectual currents. I develop ...
... simply because the binaries take for granted the legitimacy of sociology, a standpoint that may work with more impressionable undergraduates but is unlikely to persuade those familiar with contemporary intellectual currents. I develop ...
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... simply 'nature' entailed by Singer's 'Darwinian Left' is further developed in Chapter 10 by following the crossspecies migration of the concept of 'sympathy' as a basis for moral concern. Part Three projects this recent rebiologization ...
... simply 'nature' entailed by Singer's 'Darwinian Left' is further developed in Chapter 10 by following the crossspecies migration of the concept of 'sympathy' as a basis for moral concern. Part Three projects this recent rebiologization ...
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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