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
Page 5
... concept of 'sympathy' as a basis for moral concern. Part Three projects this recent re-biologization of the social world on a larger world-historic canvas. Chapter 11 distils the issue into a clash of worldviews, albeit one that defies ...
... concept of 'sympathy' as a basis for moral concern. Part Three projects this recent re-biologization of the social world on a larger world-historic canvas. Chapter 11 distils the issue into a clash of worldviews, albeit one that defies ...
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... concepts are more intertwined than many wish to admit. Indeed, were another reason needed to believe that social scientists constitute the Academic Undead, it would be the ease with which we dissociate the incontrovertible decline of ...
... concepts are more intertwined than many wish to admit. Indeed, were another reason needed to believe that social scientists constitute the Academic Undead, it would be the ease with which we dissociate the incontrovertible decline of ...
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... concept of ideology, which implied a self-serving sense of self-deception, was given a positive spin as culture in that diffuse yet 'empowering' sense that has enabled cultural studies to dominate much of sociology today. (It would be ...
... concept of ideology, which implied a self-serving sense of self-deception, was given a positive spin as culture in that diffuse yet 'empowering' sense that has enabled cultural studies to dominate much of sociology today. (It would be ...
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... concept of welfare presupposes that humanity can collectively transcend the fatalism implied in our mortality as individuals. On the one hand, the appeal to meaning has served to remind wouldbe reformers that effective social change ...
... concept of welfare presupposes that humanity can collectively transcend the fatalism implied in our mortality as individuals. On the one hand, the appeal to meaning has served to remind wouldbe reformers that effective social change ...
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... concept of humanity loses its metaphysical grounding and moral priority. Thus, depending on their ability to respond to the demands of the environment, some people will turn out to be of greater value than others – and, indeed, some ...
... concept of humanity loses its metaphysical grounding and moral priority. Thus, depending on their ability to respond to the demands of the environment, some people will turn out to be of greater value than others – and, indeed, some ...
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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