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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... redistribution of political and economic resources both within and across nations. In terms of Realpolitik, the two sides were alternative deterrence strategies – threats and bribes – in a world where large groups of people ...
... redistribution of political and economic resources both within and across nations. In terms of Realpolitik, the two sides were alternative deterrence strategies – threats and bribes – in a world where large groups of people ...
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... redistributing wealth in a productive society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have been sealed together. When, in the late 1970s, Foucaultian historiography and affiliated micro ...
... redistributing wealth in a productive society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have been sealed together. When, in the late 1970s, Foucaultian historiography and affiliated micro ...
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... redistributing effort and income to enable humanity to become a whole greater than the sum of its parts. To be sure, the gap between the rich and the poor had begun to close, when compared to the previous century of European imperial ...
... redistributing effort and income to enable humanity to become a whole greater than the sum of its parts. To be sure, the gap between the rich and the poor had begun to close, when compared to the previous century of European imperial ...
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... redistribution. Not surprisingly, recent years have witnessed the rise of corporate environmentalism, whereby labour exploitation is rendered compatible with clean environments (Hoffman, 1997). Lurking behind this 'greening' of the ...
... redistribution. Not surprisingly, recent years have witnessed the rise of corporate environmentalism, whereby labour exploitation is rendered compatible with clean environments (Hoffman, 1997). Lurking behind this 'greening' of the ...
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... redistribution of excess wealth. If one wishes to recover Mill in this context, a good place to begin is the law of ... redistribute income to correct the injustices caused by artificial restrictions on the free flow of goods and ...
... redistribution of excess wealth. If one wishes to recover Mill in this context, a good place to begin is the law of ... redistribute income to correct the injustices caused by artificial restrictions on the free flow of goods and ...
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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