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. |
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... 20th century will be remembered for two tendencies that underscore the profundity of Alvin Gouldner's expression, 'welfare-warfare state': an unprecedented expansion in the capacities of various parts of the globe for widespread ...
... 20th century will be remembered for two tendencies that underscore the profundity of Alvin Gouldner's expression, 'welfare-warfare state': an unprecedented expansion in the capacities of various parts of the globe for widespread ...
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... 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out of which all subsequent social understandings must emerge. Perhaps that is also why the 'critical' posture of social science typically feeds off the world ...
... 20th century is treated not as a graveyard of defunct ideals but the matrix out of which all subsequent social understandings must emerge. Perhaps that is also why the 'critical' posture of social science typically feeds off the world ...
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... 20th century came to a close, both empiricists and theorists drew increasing attention to the indeterminate and permeable boundaries of 'society', often in the spirit of heralding a 'postmodern' or 'non-modern' condition that replaces ...
... 20th century came to a close, both empiricists and theorists drew increasing attention to the indeterminate and permeable boundaries of 'society', often in the spirit of heralding a 'postmodern' or 'non-modern' condition that replaces ...
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... century later, sociology may be academically institutionalized, yet the mirror image of this problem arises on two ... 20–5). France, one of Europe's oldest nation-states, had been humiliated in the war, which suggested its decline, even ...
... century later, sociology may be academically institutionalized, yet the mirror image of this problem arises on two ... 20–5). France, one of Europe's oldest nation-states, had been humiliated in the war, which suggested its decline, even ...
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... century, charting the discursive shifts of such transitional 'soft Marxist' theorists as Raymond Williams and Terry ... 20th century wore on (Foucault, 1970). Far from being an integrated entity, let alone one possessing an immutable ...
... century, charting the discursive shifts of such transitional 'soft Marxist' theorists as Raymond Williams and Terry ... 20th century wore on (Foucault, 1970). Far from being an integrated entity, let alone one possessing an immutable ...
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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