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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... Chapter 5; Ebenstein, 2001: Chapter 5). These two Vienna Circles seeded the metascientific views of, respectively, the 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives in contemporary social science. Taking the latter first, the logical positivists ...
... Chapter 5; Ebenstein, 2001: Chapter 5). These two Vienna Circles seeded the metascientific views of, respectively, the 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives in contemporary social science. Taking the latter first, the logical positivists ...
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... Chapter 3). Thus, sociology became the science of and for the welfare state, the political rubric under which 'society' travelled. Perhaps the last original thinker in this tradition was James Coleman. In contrast, the members of the ...
... Chapter 3). Thus, sociology became the science of and for the welfare state, the political rubric under which 'society' travelled. Perhaps the last original thinker in this tradition was James Coleman. In contrast, the members of the ...
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... Chapters 3–4). The balance sheet on Schutz's impact on the social sciences thus turns out to be rather mixed. On the one hand, as we shall see in Chapter 4, Schutz's critique of the pseudo-immediacy of mass communications can be ...
... Chapters 3–4). The balance sheet on Schutz's impact on the social sciences thus turns out to be rather mixed. On the one hand, as we shall see in Chapter 4, Schutz's critique of the pseudo-immediacy of mass communications can be ...
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... Chapter 10). Nevertheless, progress was painfully slow and costly. Thus ensued what Marxists call 'the fiscal crisis of the state', which in the 1980s led to the curtailment of welfarist initiatives and the toppling of socialist regimes ...
... Chapter 10). Nevertheless, progress was painfully slow and costly. Thus ensued what Marxists call 'the fiscal crisis of the state', which in the 1980s led to the curtailment of welfarist initiatives and the toppling of socialist regimes ...
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... chapter, they have some disturbing precedents in the history of totalitarian politics, not least the origins of California-style 'clean environments' in the science of racial hygiene that peaked in Nazi Germany. We live in a time when ...
... chapter, they have some disturbing precedents in the history of totalitarian politics, not least the origins of California-style 'clean environments' in the science of racial hygiene that peaked in Nazi Germany. We live in a time when ...
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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