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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... Marx's Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times 11 The Coming WorldHistoric Struggle in Science and Religion 12 Understanding the Fundamentalist Backlash against ...
... Marx's Successor 10 Who (or What) Deserves Our Sympathy? Part Three: Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times 11 The Coming WorldHistoric Struggle in Science and Religion 12 Understanding the Fundamentalist Backlash against ...
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... Marx, Weber and Durkheim, treated the natural sciences as a means to overcome the prejudices of classical humanism in the name of a truly 'social science' that would have something to say about, to and for every human. Before reason was ...
... Marx, Weber and Durkheim, treated the natural sciences as a means to overcome the prejudices of classical humanism in the name of a truly 'social science' that would have something to say about, to and for every human. Before reason was ...
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... Marx with Darwin as the scientific foundation of progressive politics in an era that has witnessed the reversal of socialism's fortunes. This is the point at which the alarm should sound for those interested in preserving the integrity ...
... Marx with Darwin as the scientific foundation of progressive politics in an era that has witnessed the reversal of socialism's fortunes. This is the point at which the alarm should sound for those interested in preserving the integrity ...
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... Marx, Max Weber and Émile Durkheim (and perhaps one or two others), whereby the understanding of European reality in the first decade of the dearly departed 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out ...
... Marx, Max Weber and Émile Durkheim (and perhaps one or two others), whereby the understanding of European reality in the first decade of the dearly departed 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out ...
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... promote social science and socialism as two sides of the same project, as Karl Marx did, in his own way, for the following generation (though without Comte's term or his obsessive concern to specify the programme's endpoint).
... promote social science and socialism as two sides of the same project, as Karl Marx did, in his own way, for the following generation (though without Comte's term or his obsessive concern to specify the programme's endpoint).
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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