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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... ultimately underwriting the pincer attack on the social sciences from the humanities and the natural sciences was the retreat of state power over civil society, rather than any decisive set of empirical findings, let alone a ...
... ultimately underwriting the pincer attack on the social sciences from the humanities and the natural sciences was the retreat of state power over civil society, rather than any decisive set of empirical findings, let alone a ...
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... ultimately dictated by some non-human sense of 'reality'. It is easy to see how this 'insight' could reactivate eugenic culling. Too bad Murray failed to deal with Randall Collins' (1998) sociologically sensitive argument that the ...
... ultimately dictated by some non-human sense of 'reality'. It is easy to see how this 'insight' could reactivate eugenic culling. Too bad Murray failed to deal with Randall Collins' (1998) sociologically sensitive argument that the ...
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... ultimately lies in what they can do together. The social sciences came into their own during the 18th century European Enlightenment, when political theorists began to argue for a more integral connection between a state and its ...
... ultimately lies in what they can do together. The social sciences came into their own during the 18th century European Enlightenment, when political theorists began to argue for a more integral connection between a state and its ...
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... significance that Marxists had previously reserved for the opposite movement, 'projection'. This newfound fatalism has been especially influential in French postmodern thought. It is ultimately explainable as. 29 The Social Sciences at ...
... significance that Marxists had previously reserved for the opposite movement, 'projection'. This newfound fatalism has been especially influential in French postmodern thought. It is ultimately explainable as. 29 The Social Sciences at ...
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Steve Fuller. influential in French postmodern thought. It is ultimately explainable as a reaction to the decline of the Soviet Union, which had been the original basis of Jean-Paul Sartre's effusive claims about the prospects for ...
Steve Fuller. influential in French postmodern thought. It is ultimately explainable as a reaction to the decline of the Soviet Union, which had been the original basis of Jean-Paul Sartre's effusive claims about the prospects for ...
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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