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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... traditionally Christian and Muslim cultures demonize each other for having failed to respect that privilege. This point can both help us come to grips with '9/11' and alert us to the significance that over the past quarter century ...
... traditionally Christian and Muslim cultures demonize each other for having failed to respect that privilege. This point can both help us come to grips with '9/11' and alert us to the significance that over the past quarter century ...
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... traditionally dispossessed by the legal and medical systems. Of course, this turn against systemic normativity has been 'progressive' in the obvious sense of conferring a renewed sense of agency on victims and patients, the criminal and ...
... traditionally dispossessed by the legal and medical systems. Of course, this turn against systemic normativity has been 'progressive' in the obvious sense of conferring a renewed sense of agency on victims and patients, the criminal and ...
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... traditionally represented by trade unions and classbased politics has led him to call for a shift in the political centre of gravity from 'welfare' to 'lifestyle' (Giddens, 1994; cf. Fuller, 1995). Schutz would smile. As Giddens has ...
... traditionally represented by trade unions and classbased politics has led him to call for a shift in the political centre of gravity from 'welfare' to 'lifestyle' (Giddens, 1994; cf. Fuller, 1995). Schutz would smile. As Giddens has ...
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... traditionally have presupposed that everything can be studied in terms of their 'external relations' with other things, without considering their 'inner life' (or soul). On the other hand, the humanities traditionally have presupposed a ...
... traditionally have presupposed that everything can be studied in terms of their 'external relations' with other things, without considering their 'inner life' (or soul). On the other hand, the humanities traditionally have presupposed a ...
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... natural' forms of social life. However, this traditionally rightwing message is now aligned with recent 'progressive' sciences of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural genetics. The normative side of this shift is most.
... natural' forms of social life. However, this traditionally rightwing message is now aligned with recent 'progressive' sciences of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural genetics. The normative side of this shift is most.
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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