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 14
... regarded 'society' as an organism whose ailments were explicable and treatable in medical terms, while Weber saw 'society' as an artificial configuration of individuals best understood through various legal and economic arrangements ...
... regarded 'society' as an organism whose ailments were explicable and treatable in medical terms, while Weber saw 'society' as an artificial configuration of individuals best understood through various legal and economic arrangements ...
Page 16
... regarded as joined in common cause against the Parsonian structural-functionalist sociology establishment, it was common to read the post-structuralist 'deconstruct' to mean the Marxist 'demystify'. In this context, the promiscuous use ...
... regarded as joined in common cause against the Parsonian structural-functionalist sociology establishment, it was common to read the post-structuralist 'deconstruct' to mean the Marxist 'demystify'. In this context, the promiscuous use ...
Page 20
... regarded the incidence of crime as simply behaviour that deviated from a norm upheld by the state for its own purposes. Tarde attempted to portray Durkheim as an academic naïf in matters of policy who took the normative imperatives of ...
... regarded the incidence of crime as simply behaviour that deviated from a norm upheld by the state for its own purposes. Tarde attempted to portray Durkheim as an academic naïf in matters of policy who took the normative imperatives of ...
Page 27
... . What might be otherwise regarded as irreversible features of the human condition, with which we can do no better than 'cope', were thus treated as challenges we might overcome by systematic. 27 The Social Sciences at Risk.
... . What might be otherwise regarded as irreversible features of the human condition, with which we can do no better than 'cope', were thus treated as challenges we might overcome by systematic. 27 The Social Sciences at Risk.
Page 37
... regarded poverty as a retarded state of enterprise from which the poor had to be released. Nowadays the two groups are defined as Ecologists and Neo-Liberals, respectively, and their spheres of concern have somewhat expanded. Ecologists ...
... regarded poverty as a retarded state of enterprise from which the poor had to be released. Nowadays the two groups are defined as Ecologists and Neo-Liberals, respectively, and their spheres of concern have somewhat expanded. Ecologists ...
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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