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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Page 22
... called the 'socialist' project. Indeed, the postmodern revival of the quasi-pejorative 'utopian' to capture the aspirational nature of the human project suggests that failure is inevitable. Lest we capitulate too willingly to this ...
... called the 'socialist' project. Indeed, the postmodern revival of the quasi-pejorative 'utopian' to capture the aspirational nature of the human project suggests that failure is inevitable. Lest we capitulate too willingly to this ...
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... called 'reductionism' or 'scientism'. However, Comte's own view presupposes a more reflexive attitude toward the history of science: as the natural sciences have extended their sphere of applicability, they have also learnt more about ...
... called 'reductionism' or 'scientism'. However, Comte's own view presupposes a more reflexive attitude toward the history of science: as the natural sciences have extended their sphere of applicability, they have also learnt more about ...
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... called our 'thrownness' into a world not of our own making. Thus, 'abjection' has acquired a significance that Marxists had previously reserved for the opposite movement, 'projection'. This newfound fatalism has been especially ...
... called our 'thrownness' into a world not of our own making. Thus, 'abjection' has acquired a significance that Marxists had previously reserved for the opposite movement, 'projection'. This newfound fatalism has been especially ...
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... called the 'subject', the 'author' or simply 'man'. It is a sensibility born of Nietzsche's 'Death of God' thesis, fuelled by the perceived failure of humanism, as the final moment in the Christian world-view, to prevent the atrocities ...
... called the 'subject', the 'author' or simply 'man'. It is a sensibility born of Nietzsche's 'Death of God' thesis, fuelled by the perceived failure of humanism, as the final moment in the Christian world-view, to prevent the atrocities ...
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... called 'organic' institutions like the family and the church. (From a strictly legal standpoint, one to which the original German sociologists were especially sensitive, these two institutions had radically different bases – the family ...
... called 'organic' institutions like the family and the church. (From a strictly legal standpoint, one to which the original German sociologists were especially sensitive, these two institutions had radically different bases – the family ...
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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