The New Sociological ImaginationSAGE, 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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Page 5
... Nevertheless, its sensibility remains in recent calls for biodiversity and the curtailment of human expansion. Arguing counterfactually, I propose that had the Nazis not embarked on the Holocaust, they might well have brought us closer ...
... Nevertheless, its sensibility remains in recent calls for biodiversity and the curtailment of human expansion. Arguing counterfactually, I propose that had the Nazis not embarked on the Holocaust, they might well have brought us closer ...
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... Nevertheless, this attack has put social science on the defensive, fighting a rearguard action to stave off a rather anonymous but no less looming sense of domination, or 'empire', to use the word now in vogue (Hardt and Negri, 2000) ...
... Nevertheless, this attack has put social science on the defensive, fighting a rearguard action to stave off a rather anonymous but no less looming sense of domination, or 'empire', to use the word now in vogue (Hardt and Negri, 2000) ...
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... Nevertheless, progress was painfully slow and costly. Thus ensued what Marxists call 'the fiscal crisis of the state', which in the 1980s led to the curtailment of welfarist initiatives and the toppling of socialist regimes worldwide ...
... Nevertheless, progress was painfully slow and costly. Thus ensued what Marxists call 'the fiscal crisis of the state', which in the 1980s led to the curtailment of welfarist initiatives and the toppling of socialist regimes worldwide ...
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... Nevertheless, 'species egalitarianism' has expanded beyond Peter Singer's 'animal liberation' movement, as greater comparative research into humans and other animals tends to minimize the traditional differences between them. The more ...
... Nevertheless, 'species egalitarianism' has expanded beyond Peter Singer's 'animal liberation' movement, as greater comparative research into humans and other animals tends to minimize the traditional differences between them. The more ...
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... Nevertheless, that fact did not trouble the Cold Warriors, who focused on the anti-statism common to the two institutions.) In the Cold War genealogy, the arch French diplomatic observer of Jacksonian America, Alexis de Tocqueville ...
... Nevertheless, that fact did not trouble the Cold Warriors, who focused on the anti-statism common to the two institutions.) In the Cold War genealogy, the arch French diplomatic observer of Jacksonian America, Alexis de Tocqueville ...
Contents
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Chapter 5 Towards a Renewal of Welfare and the Rediscovery of British Sociology | 54 |
Todays Orwellian Turn in Social Science | 62 |
Chapter 10 Who or What Deserves Our Sympathy? | 118 |
Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times | 129 |
Chapter 11 The Coming WorldHistoric Struggle in Science and Religion | 131 |
Chapter 12 Understanding the Fundamentalist Backlash against Secularism | 147 |
The Sarwinian Turn in Development Policy | 161 |
Chapter 14 Might we become Nazis in Paradise? | 183 |
Is there no Escape from Human Nature? | 196 |
Glossary | 206 |
The Biological Challenge to Social Science | 77 |
Chapter 7 The Hidden Biological Past of Classical Social Theory | 79 |
Chapter 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today | 90 |
The Struggle for Marxs Successor | 107 |
References | 215 |
Index | 228 |
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