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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... the advent of the social sciences, both humanists and natural scientists have found this goal ridiculous. On the one hand, before the sociologically induced field of cultural studies, humanists have found only a. Introduction.
... the advent of the social sciences, both humanists and natural scientists have found this goal ridiculous. On the one hand, before the sociologically induced field of cultural studies, humanists have found only a. Introduction.
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Steve Fuller. induced field of cultural studies, humanists have found only a minority of humans fit to exercise dominion, namely, the authors and authorized interpreters of the 'classics'. On the other hand, the history of the natural ...
Steve Fuller. induced field of cultural studies, humanists have found only a minority of humans fit to exercise dominion, namely, the authors and authorized interpreters of the 'classics'. On the other hand, the history of the natural ...
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... cultures, the science in which is historically informed by monotheism, a phenomenon whose centrality to the sociological tradition is too often overlooked. However, the Darwinian Left marks a significant move in what I call a more ...
... cultures, the science in which is historically informed by monotheism, a phenomenon whose centrality to the sociological tradition is too often overlooked. However, the Darwinian Left marks a significant move in what I call a more ...
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... cultural studies to divine latent 'identity politics', the Newspeak for normatively self-sufficient deviant groups. As the political fortunes of Marxist universalism declined on the world stage, the negative concept of ideology, which ...
... cultural studies to divine latent 'identity politics', the Newspeak for normatively self-sufficient deviant groups. As the political fortunes of Marxist universalism declined on the world stage, the negative concept of ideology, which ...
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... cultural, economic, and even ecological factors. Of special relevance is the unique position of humans in relation ... cultures' conflict. Both have been classically concerned with a sense of reality that transcends the contingencies of ...
... cultural, economic, and even ecological factors. Of special relevance is the unique position of humans in relation ... cultures' conflict. Both have been classically concerned with a sense of reality that transcends the contingencies of ...
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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