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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Steve Fuller. PART ONE DESPERATELY SEEKING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY ONE Tales of the Academic Undead The Mysterious Disappearance of. Part I: Desperately Seeking Sociology in the 21st Century.
Steve Fuller. PART ONE DESPERATELY SEEKING SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY ONE Tales of the Academic Undead The Mysterious Disappearance of. Part I: Desperately Seeking Sociology in the 21st Century.
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Steve Fuller. ONE. Tales. of. the. Academic. Undead. The. Mysterious. Disappearance. of. Society. We social scientists are the Academic undead who restlessly roam the earth dreaming of a world filled with 'social facts' that we mistake for ...
Steve Fuller. ONE. Tales. of. the. Academic. Undead. The. Mysterious. Disappearance. of. Society. We social scientists are the Academic undead who restlessly roam the earth dreaming of a world filled with 'social facts' that we mistake for ...
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... Academic Undead, it would be the ease with which we dissociate the incontrovertible decline of socialism from the sustainability of sociology as a field that retains an intuitive appeal to students and operational purchase on ...
... Academic Undead, it would be the ease with which we dissociate the incontrovertible decline of socialism from the sustainability of sociology as a field that retains an intuitive appeal to students and operational purchase on ...
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... concern to specify the programme's endpoint). German social scientists had struggled hard to keep themselves from being reduced to policy-driven researchers and classroom propagandists. 13 Tales of the Academic Undead.
... concern to specify the programme's endpoint). German social scientists had struggled hard to keep themselves from being reduced to policy-driven researchers and classroom propagandists. 13 Tales of the Academic Undead.
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... academic 'rage against the system' has come to be seen as an end in itself rather than a means to a larger end. Foucault and his fellow-travellers have had little feel for the dialectical character of history, according to which all ...
... academic 'rage against the system' has come to be seen as an end in itself rather than a means to a larger end. Foucault and his fellow-travellers have had little feel for the dialectical character of history, according to which all ...
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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