The New Sociological ImaginationSAGE Publications, 2006 M03 3 - 231 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:
" critically examines the history of the social sciences to discover what the key contributions of Sociology have been and how relevant they remain " demonstrates how biological and sociological themes have been intertwined from the beginning of both disciplines, from the 19th century to the present day " covers virtually all of sociology's classic theorists and themes " provides a glossary of key thinkers and concepts.
This book sets the agenda for imagining Sociology in the 21st century and will attract students and professionals alike. |
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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 ...
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... postmodernist conceptions of identity . This is not because contem- porary biology retains modernist metaphysical assumptions ; on the contrary , it rejects them at least to the same extent as postmodernism does . The ascen- dancy of ...
... postmodernist conceptions of identity . This is not because contem- porary biology retains modernist metaphysical assumptions ; on the contrary , it rejects them at least to the same extent as postmodernism does . The ascen- dancy of ...
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... postmodern purveyors of identity politics , who aspire to a ' separate but equal ' multiculturalism , say much the same thing but appear more politically radical because they are writing after an additional 150 years of what has been ...
... postmodern purveyors of identity politics , who aspire to a ' separate but equal ' multiculturalism , say much the same thing but appear more politically radical because they are writing after an additional 150 years of what has been ...
Contents
Disappearance of Society | 11 |
A Brief History of the Stakes | 23 |
Socialism as the Elusive Synthesis at | 31 |
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