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 vii
... political sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies, his allergy to trendy academic Newspeak (with structural-functionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to ...
... political sensibility, his broadly positivistic methodological sympathies, his allergy to trendy academic Newspeak (with structural-functionalism here replaced by postmodernism) and his conviction that social science is vital to ...
Page 3
... political action? Why have we longed to change the world and not simply cope with it? To me these are the questions that define the legitimacy of the social sciences, and the sociology of knowledge deserves credit for having ...
... political action? Why have we longed to change the world and not simply cope with it? To me these are the questions that define the legitimacy of the social sciences, and the sociology of knowledge deserves credit for having ...
Page 4
... 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 together in the project of turning Homo sapiens into ...
... 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 together in the project of turning Homo sapiens into ...
Page 6
... political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals (Homo sapiens) closer to divine salvation. The second ...
... political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals (Homo sapiens) closer to divine salvation. The second ...
Page 12
... Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both sides of the issue before concluding that, contrary to Mrs Thatcher's assertion, society does indeed exist. While Barry may ...
... Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both sides of the issue before concluding that, contrary to Mrs Thatcher's assertion, society does indeed exist. While Barry may ...
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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