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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... view of modern evolutionary theory as the burden that social science needs ... world, largely because they have managed to control their selection ... earth precedent is the long-standing academic interest in independently examining ...
... view of modern evolutionary theory as the burden that social science needs ... world, largely because they have managed to control their selection ... earth precedent is the long-standing academic interest in independently examining ...
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... world, ultimately underwriting the pincer attack on the social sciences from ... world otherwise engulfed in chaotic capitalist flows. In this respect ... view as Durkheim began to institutionalize the discipline – that is, until ...
... world, ultimately underwriting the pincer attack on the social sciences from ... world otherwise engulfed in chaotic capitalist flows. In this respect ... view as Durkheim began to institutionalize the discipline – that is, until ...
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... world-view, to prevent the atrocities of the 20th century, especially the two world wars. A measure of its influence is that many now are comfortable with Heidegger's assertion that language 'speaks us', rather than the other way round ...
... world-view, to prevent the atrocities of the 20th century, especially the two world wars. A measure of its influence is that many now are comfortable with Heidegger's assertion that language 'speaks us', rather than the other way round ...
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... World War, has been called the 'Scientific Revolution', the process whereby Christianity was allegedly liberated ... view has been characteristic of naturalistic liberals who by the end of the 19th century came to regard Darwin's natural ...
... World War, has been called the 'Scientific Revolution', the process whereby Christianity was allegedly liberated ... view has been characteristic of naturalistic liberals who by the end of the 19th century came to regard Darwin's natural ...
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... view of life associated with biotechnology that is shared by the free market liberals and what remains of the ... world is captured in Table 3.1. I should immediately say that the 19th century has not fully disappeared from the 21st ...
... view of life associated with biotechnology that is shared by the free market liberals and what remains of the ... world is captured in Table 3.1. I should immediately say that the 19th century has not fully disappeared from the 21st ...
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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