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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... Theory 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today 9 Beware of Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered ...
... Theory 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today 9 Beware of Darwinists Bearing Leftist Gifts: The Struggle for Marx's Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered ...
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... theory detaches its concerns from empirical sociology makes it a sitting duck for ideology critique. Little surprise, then, that social theory's rise as an autonomous field over the past quarter century has corresponded to ideology ...
... theory detaches its concerns from empirical sociology makes it a sitting duck for ideology critique. Little surprise, then, that social theory's rise as an autonomous field over the past quarter century has corresponded to ideology ...
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Steve Fuller. Warwick University MA courses, Philosophy and Social Theory and Sociology of Modernity, and the graduate summer school at the University of Lund, Helsingborg, both held in 2004. Thanks to Anne Kovalainen and Pekka Selkunen ...
Steve Fuller. Warwick University MA courses, Philosophy and Social Theory and Sociology of Modernity, and the graduate summer school at the University of Lund, Helsingborg, both held in 2004. Thanks to Anne Kovalainen and Pekka Selkunen ...
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... theory as the burden that social science needs to overcome to maintain its autonomy from the natural sciences. My response is to argue that what makes some animals 'human' is their participation in largescale corporate projects that ...
... theory as the burden that social science needs to overcome to maintain its autonomy from the natural sciences. My response is to argue that what makes some animals 'human' is their participation in largescale corporate projects that ...
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... Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both sides of the issue before concluding that, contrary to Mrs Thatcher's assertion, society does indeed exist. While Barry may have ...
... Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both sides of the issue before concluding that, contrary to Mrs Thatcher's assertion, society does indeed exist. While Barry may have ...
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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