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
... 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 dubbed the ...
... 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 dubbed the ...
Page 21
... individual or event succeeded in shifting the de facto norm, which in turn would cause the state to shift its policies accordingly. Thus, Tarde's state was just one of several adaptive agents, each behaving according to its own ...
... individual or event succeeded in shifting the de facto norm, which in turn would cause the state to shift its policies accordingly. Thus, Tarde's state was just one of several adaptive agents, each behaving according to its own ...
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... individual members of Homo sapiens, with categories like 'genius' and 'classic' playing significant evaluative and even explanatory roles. Here we should recall the deep historic links between the natural sciences and the humanities ...
... individual members of Homo sapiens, with categories like 'genius' and 'classic' playing significant evaluative and even explanatory roles. Here we should recall the deep historic links between the natural sciences and the humanities ...
Page 25
... individual achievements, competences, status or health – are equally significant members of society, whose strength ultimately lies in what they can do together. The social sciences came into their own during the 18th century European ...
... individual achievements, competences, status or health – are equally significant members of society, whose strength ultimately lies in what they can do together. The social sciences came into their own during the 18th century European ...
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... individuals. On the one hand, the appeal to meaning has served to remind wouldbe reformers that effective social change requires recognizing that individuals already have standpoints that inform their actions – and it is only by ...
... individuals. On the one hand, the appeal to meaning has served to remind wouldbe reformers that effective social change requires recognizing that individuals already have standpoints that inform their actions – and it is only 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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