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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... ethical' gesture. To the true social scientist this gesture is neither big nor clever but simply an abdication of responsibility for the decision-making contexts that challenge and define our common humanity. In the pages that follow ...
... ethical' gesture. To the true social scientist this gesture is neither big nor clever but simply an abdication of responsibility for the decision-making contexts that challenge and define our common humanity. In the pages that follow ...
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... ethic associated with a wartime economy could be justified even without the sense of 'permanent emergency', a phrase from Bismarck's Germany that Daniel Bell later recast to capture the Cold War mentality (Proctor, 1991: Chapter 9) ...
... ethic associated with a wartime economy could be justified even without the sense of 'permanent emergency', a phrase from Bismarck's Germany that Daniel Bell later recast to capture the Cold War mentality (Proctor, 1991: Chapter 9) ...
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... ethics' of the sort promoted by Herbert Spencer is a non-starter because humanity is distinguished by its organized resistance to natural selection. Huxley meant the various ways in which humans have transformed the natural environment ...
... ethics' of the sort promoted by Herbert Spencer is a non-starter because humanity is distinguished by its organized resistance to natural selection. Huxley meant the various ways in which humans have transformed the natural environment ...
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... ethic among the poor or the unpredictability of markets. Back then capitalists found themselves on the defensive precisely because they agreed with the socialists on the entitlement of all human beings to equal opportunity. (The ...
... ethic among the poor or the unpredictability of markets. Back then capitalists found themselves on the defensive precisely because they agreed with the socialists on the entitlement of all human beings to equal opportunity. (The ...
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... ethic from a dialectical synthesis of the two countervailing forms of inegalitarianism that came to be consolidated by the end of the 18th century: conservative paternalism and liberal voluntarism. For the first time, a form of politics ...
... ethic from a dialectical synthesis of the two countervailing forms of inegalitarianism that came to be consolidated by the end of the 18th century: conservative paternalism and liberal voluntarism. For the first time, a form of politics ...
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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