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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... liberalism and postmodernism, which are roughly the political and philosophical sides of the same world-historic movement. In Chapter 2, I sketch the world we are on the verge of losing, one that joins the social sciences and socialism ...
... liberalism and postmodernism, which are roughly the political and philosophical sides of the same world-historic movement. In Chapter 2, I sketch the world we are on the verge of losing, one that joins the social sciences and socialism ...
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... liberal policies of expanding the electoral franchise to more explicitly socialist policies for redistributing wealth in a productive society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have ...
... liberal policies of expanding the electoral franchise to more explicitly socialist policies for redistributing wealth in a productive society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have ...
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... liberal times. The distinctiveness of the strategy is noteworthy. By way of contrast, consider George Santayana's famous observation that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it (Santayana, 1905: 84). The comment was ...
... liberal times. The distinctiveness of the strategy is noteworthy. By way of contrast, consider George Santayana's famous observation that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it (Santayana, 1905: 84). The comment was ...
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... Liberal Member of Parliament in the Gladstone era, where he promoted the idea that imperialism was the best vehicle for extending freedom across the globe. Mill had no qualms about paving the straightest path to achieving the project of ...
... Liberal Member of Parliament in the Gladstone era, where he promoted the idea that imperialism was the best vehicle for extending freedom across the globe. Mill had no qualms about paving the straightest path to achieving the project of ...
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... has been characteristic of naturalistic liberals who by the end of the 19th century came to regard Darwin's natural selection as a generalization of Adam Smith's invisible hand. We shall see that the. 36 The New Sociological Imagination.
... has been characteristic of naturalistic liberals who by the end of the 19th century came to regard Darwin's natural selection as a generalization of Adam Smith's invisible hand. We shall see that the. 36 The New Sociological Imagination.
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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