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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... social sciences, is suffering from an identity crisis. The crisis is epitomized by those both in and out of academia who wonder what the field adds that cannot be already gleaned from the humanities and/or the natural sciences. Even if ...
... social sciences, is suffering from an identity crisis. The crisis is epitomized by those both in and out of academia who wonder what the field adds that cannot be already gleaned from the humanities and/or the natural sciences. Even if ...
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... social scientists. If our knowledge is the most coherent expression of our experience, then why don't we settle for less in life? Why don't we accept distress, disappointment, defeat and death more gracefully by justifying them as facts ...
... social scientists. If our knowledge is the most coherent expression of our experience, then why don't we settle for less in life? Why don't we accept distress, disappointment, defeat and death more gracefully by justifying them as facts ...
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... social sciences and socialism together in the project of turning Homo sapiens into proper human beings. Chapters 3 ... scientists to engage with human biology. The lesson here is that sociologists should stop deferring to the authority ...
... social sciences and socialism together in the project of turning Homo sapiens into proper human beings. Chapters 3 ... scientists to engage with human biology. The lesson here is that sociologists should stop deferring to the authority ...
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Steve Fuller. ONE. Tales. of. the. Academic. Undead. The Mysterious Disappearance of Society We social scientists are the Academic undead who restlessly roam the earth dreaming of a world filled with 'social facts' that we mistake for the ...
Steve Fuller. ONE. Tales. of. the. Academic. Undead. The Mysterious Disappearance of Society We social scientists are the Academic undead who restlessly roam the earth dreaming of a world filled with 'social facts' that we mistake for the ...
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... social scientific, social theoretic, and socialistic critique, not least the ... sciences – not least in sociology, where the leading professor in the UK's ... scientists constitute the Academic Undead, it would be the ease with which ...
... social scientific, social theoretic, and socialistic critique, not least the ... sciences – not least in sociology, where the leading professor in the UK's ... scientists constitute the Academic Undead, it would be the ease with which ...
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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