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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... Gene Rosa, Arnaud Sales, Zia Sardar, Skuli Sigurdsson, Nico Stehr, Roger Trigg, Stephen Turner, Anne Witz. Finally, this book is dedicated to my former partner, Stephanie Lawler, without whom I would have been much less human ...
... Gene Rosa, Arnaud Sales, Zia Sardar, Skuli Sigurdsson, Nico Stehr, Roger Trigg, Stephen Turner, Anne Witz. Finally, this book is dedicated to my former partner, Stephanie Lawler, without whom I would have been much less human ...
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... gene' view of modern evolutionary theory as the burden that social science needs to overcome to maintain its autonomy from ... genes, or even knowledge of their family lineage. Indeed, that people, including academics outside the social ...
... gene' view of modern evolutionary theory as the burden that social science needs to overcome to maintain its autonomy from ... genes, or even knowledge of their family lineage. Indeed, that people, including academics outside the social ...
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... genetic makeup and default behavioural patterns provide only the raw material out of which 'human beings' may be politically and scientifically constructed. This is the primary normative meaning of 'society' in the modern sense, an ...
... genetic makeup and default behavioural patterns provide only the raw material out of which 'human beings' may be politically and scientifically constructed. This is the primary normative meaning of 'society' in the modern sense, an ...
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... of social life. However, this traditionally right-wing message is now aligned with recent 'progressive' sciences of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural genetics. The. 28 The New Sociological Imagination.
... of social life. However, this traditionally right-wing message is now aligned with recent 'progressive' sciences of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioural genetics. The. 28 The New Sociological Imagination.
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... genetics and evolutionary biology does not privilege Homo sapiens above other animals. Because animals share 90+% of their genes, species turn out to be convenient taxonomic schemes, not natural kinds. From a strictly Neo-Darwinian ...
... genetics and evolutionary biology does not privilege Homo sapiens above other animals. Because animals share 90+% of their genes, species turn out to be convenient taxonomic schemes, not natural kinds. From a strictly Neo-Darwinian ...
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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