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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... sciences, is suffering from an identity crisis. The crisis is epitomized by those both in and out of academia who wonder what the field adds that cannot be already gleaned from the humanities and/or the natural sciences. Even if this ...
... sciences, is suffering from an identity crisis. The crisis is epitomized by those both in and out of academia who wonder what the field adds that cannot be already gleaned from the humanities and/or the natural sciences. Even if this ...
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... science represented by Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte and, perhaps more controversially, sociology's Holy Trinity of Marx, Weber and Durkheim, treated the natural sciences as a means to overcome the prejudices of classical humanism in the ...
... science represented by Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte and, perhaps more controversially, sociology's Holy Trinity of Marx, Weber and Durkheim, treated the natural sciences as a means to overcome the prejudices of classical humanism in the ...
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... scientific foundation of progressive politics in an era that has witnessed the ... natural history. Chapter 12 makes clear what is at stake, namely, the ... sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology by no means spell the ...
... scientific foundation of progressive politics in an era that has witnessed the ... natural history. Chapter 12 makes clear what is at stake, namely, the ... sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology by no means spell the ...
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... natural' relationship to each other. Thus, I am willing to entertain Richard Dawkins' 'selfish gene' view of modern evolutionary theory as the burden that social science needs to overcome to maintain its autonomy from the natural sciences ...
... natural' relationship to each other. Thus, I am willing to entertain Richard Dawkins' 'selfish gene' view of modern evolutionary theory as the burden that social science needs to overcome to maintain its autonomy from the natural sciences ...
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... scientific imagination from opposing sides – that is, from the humanities and the natural sciences. On the one hand, the demise of a robust sense of society has empowered humanistically trained researchers in cultural studies to divine ...
... scientific imagination from opposing sides – that is, from the humanities and the natural sciences. On the one hand, the demise of a robust sense of society has empowered humanistically trained researchers in cultural studies to divine ...
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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