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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... strategies – threats and bribes – in a world where large groups of people fundamentally distrusted each other. However, one of the original logical positivists, Otto Neurath, had proposed in the aftermath of the First World War that the ...
... strategies – threats and bribes – in a world where large groups of people fundamentally distrusted each other. However, one of the original logical positivists, Otto Neurath, had proposed in the aftermath of the First World War that the ...
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... strategy is noteworthy. By way of contrast, consider George Santayana's famous observation that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it (Santayana, 1905: 84). The comment was originally made in defence of the idea that ...
... strategy is noteworthy. By way of contrast, consider George Santayana's famous observation that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it (Santayana, 1905: 84). The comment was originally made in defence of the idea that ...
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... strategies have been deployed to preclude all members of Homo sapiens from fully participating in the project of ... strategy was historically associated with humanistically inclined conservatives who nostalgically recalled a feudal ...
... strategies have been deployed to preclude all members of Homo sapiens from fully participating in the project of ... strategy was historically associated with humanistically inclined conservatives who nostalgically recalled a feudal ...
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... strategy was to reproduce the current social order, no matter the opportunity costs, whereas the liberals wanted to invest current wealth most efficiently, no matter the social dislocation that resulted. For British liberals, the Poor ...
... strategy was to reproduce the current social order, no matter the opportunity costs, whereas the liberals wanted to invest current wealth most efficiently, no matter the social dislocation that resulted. For British liberals, the Poor ...
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... strategy Source of original equality Source of ultimate inequality Fictional devil ('demonized other') Real devil Vulnerable wards Poor laws Minimum wage Social insurance Fitness to fate Natural hierarchy Thomas Gradgrind ('Penny ...
... strategy Source of original equality Source of ultimate inequality Fictional devil ('demonized other') Real devil Vulnerable wards Poor laws Minimum wage Social insurance Fitness to fate Natural hierarchy Thomas Gradgrind ('Penny ...
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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