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 18
... idea that individuals spontaneously possess a sociological sensibility transcendent of their daily interactions. I mean what the pragmatist George Herbert Mead called the 'generalized other' and the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre ...
... idea that individuals spontaneously possess a sociological sensibility transcendent of their daily interactions. I mean what the pragmatist George Herbert Mead called the 'generalized other' and the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre ...
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... ideas tend to be exchanged in the currency of thermodynamics and other stochastic sciences, one could just as easily conjure up the image of the early Christian sects who persevered in the face of Satan's multifarious temptations ...
... ideas tend to be exchanged in the currency of thermodynamics and other stochastic sciences, one could just as easily conjure up the image of the early Christian sects who persevered in the face of Satan's multifarious temptations ...
Page 21
... idea that entire societies undergo a life cycle comparable to that of each individual. Thus, for him historical amnesia was an expression of social senescence, something he accepted in the spirit of Epicurean fatalism: forgetting ...
... idea that entire societies undergo a life cycle comparable to that of each individual. Thus, for him historical amnesia was an expression of social senescence, something he accepted in the spirit of Epicurean fatalism: forgetting ...
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... idea, common to experiments and ethnographies, has also inspired the triumphs and disasters that punctuate the history of modern politics. As I have argued, it has required an increasingly controversial assumption: All human beings ...
... idea, common to experiments and ethnographies, has also inspired the triumphs and disasters that punctuate the history of modern politics. As I have argued, it has required an increasingly controversial assumption: All human beings ...
Page 27
... idea of a welfare state in France (under the rubric of Solidarisme), an idea he had picked up from Germany, where it had been a Bismarckian innovation used to consolidate a politically bounded space united by language but divided by ...
... idea of a welfare state in France (under the rubric of Solidarisme), an idea he had picked up from Germany, where it had been a Bismarckian innovation used to consolidate a politically bounded space united by language but divided by ...
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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