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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... Society The Social Sciences at Risk: A Brief History of the Stakes Socialism as the Elusive Synthesis at the Heart of Social Science The Problem of Inheritance and Socialism's Ultimate Retreat to Naturalism Towards a Renewal of Welfare ...
... Society The Social Sciences at Risk: A Brief History of the Stakes Socialism as the Elusive Synthesis at the Heart of Social Science The Problem of Inheritance and Socialism's Ultimate Retreat to Naturalism Towards a Renewal of Welfare ...
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... 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 Nations, which has tried to keep the world's focus on problems its ...
... 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 Nations, which has tried to keep the world's focus on problems its ...
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... society' as a distinct domain of inquiry has gradually disappeared with the rise of neoliberalism and postmodernism, which are roughly the political and philosophical sides of the same worldhistoric movement. In Chapter 2, I sketch the ...
... society' as a distinct domain of inquiry has gradually disappeared with the rise of neoliberalism and postmodernism, which are roughly the political and philosophical sides of the same worldhistoric movement. In Chapter 2, I sketch the ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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... Society pamphlet (no. 536), 'Does society exist?' Authored by Brian Barry, an analytic philosopher who was then Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both ...
... Society pamphlet (no. 536), 'Does society exist?' Authored by Brian Barry, an analytic philosopher who was then Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both ...
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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