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. |
From inside the book
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... common humanity. In the pages that follow, the reader will note that I make much of one's attitude towards history. This is in keeping with my own project of social epistemology, a normative version of the sociology of knowledge that ...
... common humanity. In the pages that follow, the reader will note that I make much of one's attitude towards history. This is in keeping with my own project of social epistemology, a normative version of the sociology of knowledge that ...
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... common normative structure, the emphasis has now shifted to the deviants so excluded. Moreover, Foucault's historically based observations have been confirmed for the past quarter-century by micro-sociological studies, mostly by ...
... common normative structure, the emphasis has now shifted to the deviants so excluded. Moreover, Foucault's historically based observations have been confirmed for the past quarter-century by micro-sociological studies, mostly by ...
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... common cause against the Parsonian structural-functionalist sociology establishment, it was common to read the post-structuralist 'deconstruct' to mean the Marxist 'demystify'. In this context, the promiscuous use of words like ...
... common cause against the Parsonian structural-functionalist sociology establishment, it was common to read the post-structuralist 'deconstruct' to mean the Marxist 'demystify'. In this context, the promiscuous use of words like ...
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... common to Parsonian structuralfunctionalism and Keynesian welfare economics drew epistemic sustenance from this perspective and, through Viennese émigrés like Paul Lazarsfeld, professionalized US social science in the Cold War era ...
... common to Parsonian structuralfunctionalism and Keynesian welfare economics drew epistemic sustenance from this perspective and, through Viennese émigrés like Paul Lazarsfeld, professionalized US social science in the Cold War era ...
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... common identity among the non-deviant, he also believed that at least some forms of deviance could be rectified through appropriate state action that brought the default 'natural norm' into conformity with the prescribed 'artificial ...
... common identity among the non-deviant, he also believed that at least some forms of deviance could be rectified through appropriate state action that brought the default 'natural norm' into conformity with the prescribed 'artificial ...
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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